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| 525509 | 2007-02-18 06:01:00 | I'm interested in knowing why you suggest disabling SpyBot's TeaTimer, Speedy? | Laura (43) | ||
| 525510 | 2007-02-18 06:06:00 | I'm interested in knowing why you suggest disabling SpyBot's TeaTimer, Speedy? Well sometimes it can stop valid entries from going into the registry, and then whatever it is wont work properly. It isn't necessary for Teatimer to run in the background. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 525511 | 2007-02-18 10:44:00 | Well sometimes it can stop valid entries from going into the registry, and then whatever it is wont work properly. It isn't necessary for Teatimer to run in the background. I can see I'll have to read the SpyBot guff again. I thought TeaTimer's extra protection came from having it always running in the background. If it's only run occasionally, I see no point in having it. Might as well just stick with basic SpyBot Search & Destroy, surely? Or is there something I've missed here? (Yes, it has sometimes given me problems - not by refusing new registry entries, but by refusing to let me delete unwanted programs determined to plonk themselves in StartUp. I just assumed that's a fault in how I originally set it up - one of those things to fix " some day.") |
Laura (43) | ||
| 525512 | 2007-02-18 18:31:00 | The Resident TeaTimer is a new tool of Spybot-S&D which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated. It immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some options, how to deal with this process in the future: You can set TeaTimer to: * be informed, when the process tries to start again * automatically kill the process * or generally allow the process to run There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process. In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either "Allow" or "Deny" the change. As TeaTimer is always running in the background, it takes some resources of about 5 MB. Not to be confused with Immunize. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 525513 | 2007-02-19 01:35:00 | Yes, that's what I thought, pctek. My TeaTimer does seem to have a mind of its own, however. It gives me the "Allow" or "Deny" choices OK, but is so grumpy that whichever I choose, the reply is always " Change denied." (That's for removing StartUp entries. Haven't noticed any refusal to allow elements of a download) It's not been a biggie so far, but I guess I should re-install it when I have time? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 525514 | 2007-02-19 02:12:00 | It's not been a biggie so far, but I guess I should re-install it when I have time? If you want a monitor try RegDefend or similar. I always install Spybot with it off, you can also disable it without reinstalling...... |
pctek (84) | ||
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