What is HouseCall?

Trend Micro HouseCall is an application for checking whether your computer has been infected by viruses, spyware or other malware ( grayware ). HouseCall performs additional security checks and allows to remove detected infections.

Feature overview:

• Detects and removes malware ( viruses, worms, trojans, etc. )
• Detects and removes grayware and spyware
• Restores damage caused by malware to your system.
• Notifies about vulnerabilities in installed programs and connected network services.
• Multi-platform support for: Windows, Linux, Solaris,
• Easy-to-use with the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox,

System Requirements:

Trend Micro’s HouseCall requires the following system components:
Hardware:

• At least 133MHz Intel™ Pentium™ processor or equivalent
• At least 256MB of RAM
• At least 100MB of available disk space

Operating System:

• Microsoft Windows SP6a/2000,SP2/XP,SP1/2003, Vista and Windows MCE 2005
• Linux Distributions that supports libc6
• Solaris 2.6 and above

Software:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 or later
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
• Camino 1.0 or later

Display:

• Monitor that supports 800 x 600 resolution at 256 colors or higher

Macintosh support requires the following minimum system components:

• Macintosh Computer with PowerPC G4 or G5 Processor
• MAC OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• 512MB of RAM
• At least 30MB of available disk space
• Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 and later

Important Notes about HouseCall 6.6
HouseCall 6.6 has two independent Core Engines to choose from:

1. The ActiveX Core Engine: to use this engine, please adjust here the IE browser’s Security level to Medium at least and be sure that signed ActiveX objects are enabled.
   
2. The Java VM Core Engine- to use this engine, please install the Java VM from www.java.com.