TIS now says it will uninstall Spybot for you
The latest version of Trend Internet Security gives a message at installation: Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 is incompatible with Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4. As a result, you cannot run both on your computer. Click "Yes" to install Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 and uninstall Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4, or click "No" to stop the installation.
Anybody who insists on removing other security software before installing theirs is putting their interests ahead of their users' security, and shouldn't be selling security software at all.
Trend Micro and Massive FPs for Hosts?
Would this conflict explain the following (I posted to another area by mistake):
I enabled the host file protection and when my Trend Micro scanned it searched nearly 3,000 hosts files and labeled 107 "suspects" and high privacy threat.
When I asked for more info. about each item, however, it said that not all hosts files are spyware. Gee, that's helpful.
Is this a usual false positive when enabling Spybot's 127.0.0.1 hosts option?
Why didn't it find all of the files "suspect?"
The 107 were all grouped under two items:
Adware_Memwatcher (94 items)
TSPYW_Small (13 items).
It won't let me copy the results to paste here.
Trend Micro and Spybot Hosts
Trend Micro was the ONLY anti-spyware program to detect those HOST files as spyware. When I removed the HOST files, Trend Micro found no spyware.
Two assumptions:
1. I doubt Spybot allows individuals to download its program full of spyware!
2. Given the negative findings of other programs (AVG, Spybot, Panda), I believe these were false positives. If you are really paranoid, you could simply remove the 100 HOST files and leave all the rest.
However, I had Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.5 for a year and it kept missing spyware so I junked it. I wouldn't rely on it.
PC-cillin 2007 version 15.3 released to fix slow down and add Vista support
For those of you having slow down problems with Trend Micro PC-cillin 2007 version 15.3 was just released which adds Vista support and may help with speed issues.
You can see the KB article on slow down here http://esupport.trendmicro.com/suppo...tID=EN-1033903 and download the update here http://esupport.trendmicro.com/suppo...tentID=1034407
I'm not sure why Trend Micro doesn't have PC-cillin automatically update itself to this new version.
TrendMicro and Spybot issue
This is complicated, but I'm going to try and explain what has happened to me in two cases. I'm a computer pro (since 1987) and this was very hard to figure out:
I always use Spybot. For the last 2 years I have always used TrendMicro (I'm a reseller, and Symantec and McAffee have both disappointed me).
I upgraded to 'TrendMicro Client/Server/Messaging' for our company. I had no problems until (and I don't know which of these are pertinent):
1. I upgraded to Windows Media Player 11 which included .net 2.0 (why it had to be upgraded I don't know, I think Premiere required it or something)
2. and added Adobe Premiere Elements
Then I received a large (109 Mb) .avi file from someone. That day my drive light came on and would not go out. The computer churned into unbelievable slowness.
I tried several 'fixes' including replacing the drive and Ghost'ing the image back on the computer. Shortly after booting, the drive light would come on and would not go out.
To shorten a two-week process, I'll just give the ending: I uninstalled Spybot --no improvement. I put Spybot back on. I uninstalled Trend--no improvement.
Finally, I uninstalled Spybot, rebooted. I then uninstalled TrendMicro, rebooted.
After that, the drive is behaving normally and all is okay. I put Trend back on, and it still is working fine.
I want to put Spybot back on, but I am going to call Trend and post this in the forum before I do.
The summary is that Something is up with TrendMicro and Spybot, but what is it. . . ?
Part of my diagnosys included using Sysinternals procmon, and I do know that Teatimer and a Trend process (pcsomething...) were going nuts and that the page file was getting hammered and growing.
I hope this helps in some way, I promise anyone that Trend does NOT find spyware anywhere near as well as Spybot does. I wish they had never added that 'feature' to the virus scan. This trend of adding more and more 'features' to software is causing a lot of trouble.