Trend Micro's second announcement Monday concerns a radical change for an updated version of its OfficeScan Client/Server Suite which is expected to ship in mid-May.

With this tenth version of its flagship Windows servers and desktop security suite, Trend Micro is following through on its earlier promise to develop an to the traditional method of anti-virus scanning that requires downloading thousands of virus signatures to the desktop.

"There are over 1,500 new malware samples created every hour," says Glessner, pointing out that downloading this volume of signature protection every day is becoming increasingly untenable.

As an alternative to the traditional process that involves checking the signature database stored on the desktop to detect a virus, Trend Micro has come up with an alternate method it refers to as its Smart Protection Network concept.

It's based on the idea of moving a portion of the database to the cloud, says Ron Clarkson, Trend Micro's director of endpoint security.