Originally Posted by
Lord Cobol
"remember though that you cannot re-enable spybots immunization, or spybots host file, coz pccillin will detect them as spyware entries"
Actually, their anti-spyware scan will detect a bit over a hundred of the hosts files entries, but you can work around that by setting their scan to ask instead of always deleting, then when it finds them, tell it to "always ignore" and it won't find them again.
Their "suspicious software alarm system" and its "list of suspicious changes" will complain about immunizations and other hosts file entries, but they come up with so many false alarms even on non-spybot PCs that I think everyone should just turn them off and ignore them. Once, when I let PC-cillin undo non-spybot "suspicious changes" it trashed my network connection and didn't say exactly what it had done, leaving me to double check all my network settings until I found it. You would be much better off with Teatimer, especially the 1.5 beta version. I don't think any sane person could stand to have old Teatimer and PC-cillin both asking your permission about every system change they see.
Trend Micro suggests turning off Spybot's immunizations and before un-installing it, because the immunizations add a lot of registry entries and slow down spyware scans. They seem to say in one FAQ that it can cause real-time scan slowdowns, but I can't confirm that. Anyway, their by-request and scheduled scans may go faster without Spybot's immunizations. That isn't a big deal on my PC, but if your PC is slow it might make sense to de-immunize before a PC-c spyware scan, then re-immunize.
I think PC-cillin is a pretty good product, even if the 2007 version is a bit disappointing. If you have already paid for it I would suggest you keep it and re-install spybot. If you aren't too clear how from what you read in this post, search the archives and you may still be able to find a thread from a few months ago where I gave similar advice with different wording.