At the time, Trend Micro was listed on both the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
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The SEC was also investigating whether Chen underreported her holdings in Trend Micro shares.
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Chen founded Trend Micro with her brother-in-law, Steve Chang, and her sister, Jenny Chang, in 1988.
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Trend Micro has been relatively quiet about the development of their Custom Defense product line.
Throughout its early years Trend Micro faced frequent accusations of hacking to boost its software sales.
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Trend Micro started investing in the development of security for virtualized servers and cloud computing in 2007.
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Vendors that are assisting include Microsoft, Internet Security Systems, Axent Technologies, Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro.
But the real problem behind employees' insecure practices, says Trend Micro's Perry, doesn't stem from any single trend.
Trend Micro confirmed to Forbes on Wednesday that Eva Chen does own 1.689 million shares of the company.
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Trend Micro aggregates information about the threats it finds and publishes the data on its Web site.
Free anti virus products are available from known companies such as AVG, Avira, Panda Software, or Trend Micro.
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Chen says she was never as outgoing as sister Jenny and had shunned the limelight at Trend Micro.
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This was Trend Micro, launched in late 1988 with Steve as top executive and Jenny as marketing director.
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Security firm Trend Micro reports that users are receiving messages from contacts in their Skype cntact list.
The Trend Micro report found that custom hacking jobs were more expensive though unlikely to break the bank.
But David Perry, a spokesperson for Trend Micro, says that's no longer enough.
Eva Chen is the only one of the family foursome who remains involved in day-to-day operations at Trend Micro.
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Software from companies including AVG, Bitdefender, ESET, Norton and Trend Micro detected between 65 and 90 percent of malware.
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Today, Steve Chang remains chairman of Trend Micro and the biggest individual stockholder, with a 3.84% stake in the company.
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Chikai Tanaka, an analyst at Nomura Securities in Japan, said he obtained that figure from a meeting with Trend Micro.
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While Steve Chang was the face of Trend Micro in its early years, his sister-in-law came to be his secret weapon.
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Alongside this announcement, BlackBerry also hinted about a service from Trend Micro that scans URLs, emails and files for potential threats.
The 54-year-old is a cofounder and CEO of Trend Micro, the number three antivirus software firm worldwide and the biggest in Asia.
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"I think it's just coincidental, " says Paul Ferguson, a researcher at Trend Micro, the world's third-largest Internet security company behind McAfee and Symantec.
"It looks like they are using the same approach as Libya did, " explained Rik Ferguson, vice president of security research at Trend Micro.
As mobile technology unties workers from their offices, they engage in significantly more risky behavior, according to a study released Tuesday by Trend Micro.
If it can gain traction it could be disruptive to some of the major Internet security companies such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro.
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Today Trend Micro has 5, 120 employees and operates in 37 countries.
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Trend Micro, Kaspersky, CA, McAfee and others all have multi-user versions.
"When the company was set up, we were seeing two or three new viruses a week, " said Mahendra Negi, chief financial officer of Tokyo-based antivirus maker Trend Micro.
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