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Trend Micro Apex One generates significant network traffic when it updates a component. To reduce network traffic generated during component updates, Trend Micro Apex One performs component duplication. Instead of downloading an updated full pattern file, Trend Micro Apex One only downloads the "incremental" patterns (smaller versions of the full pattern file) and merges them with the old pattern file after the download.
Security Agents updated regularly only download the incremental pattern. Otherwise, they download the full pattern file.
Trend Micro releases new pattern files regularly. Trend Micro also releases a new pattern file as soon as a damaging and actively circulating virus/malware is discovered.