lavasoft ad-watch / spybot tea timer

sare^baw's · 14 Oct 2008 at 16:35

i just did a fresh install of xp, and i installed lavasoft ad-aware and spybot, i have the ad-watch real time protection running and starting with windows, all it seems to do is flash everytime something changes and its annoying, is it worth using the ad-watch feature or should i just disable it , doe sit not offer any great protection?

same question about the spybot tea timer it just warns me when there a change to the registry, is this another feature thats over the top and not really needed?

i was thinking its not worth having these apps running if they are not really necessary.

platypus · 14 Oct 2008 at 16:43

I've never ever used tea-timer. Run a spybot check once a week though.

swinnie · 14 Oct 2008 at 16:43

I always disable the Tea Timer.

I don't like the new AdAware, the SE Personal Edition was excellent, but since AdAware 2008, I haven't been using it.

Dougsnake · 14 Oct 2008 at 18:28

swinnie said:
I always disable the Tea Timer.

I don't like the new AdAware, the SE Personal Edition was excellent, but since AdAware 2008, I haven't been using it.

Same here

gillywibble · 14 Oct 2008 at 18:36

I could live with Ad Aware (I don't, but I could). However, tea-timer is just irritating.

Shadows1990 · 14 Oct 2008 at 18:38

I find TeaTimer screws up really bad on some resolutions, and has done for years.
Also, I agree that Ad-Aware has gone downhill after SE Personal Edition

Ratbag · 14 Oct 2008 at 19:01

Yep, realtime protection of that sort tends to bog your system down and irritate more than anything. Deploy Spywareblaster, then (if you must) occasionally run a manual scan with superantispyware [free edition] or malwarebytes.

sare^baw's · 14 Oct 2008 at 19:40

cheers guys ill likely just disable tea timer and real time protection with ad-watch.

as i dont pay for my programs i am running adaware pro, i just really use it to run a weekly scan, same as spybot i run my weekly scan. but the 2 icons in the tray are annoying esp the adwatch one it flashes everytime my pc does something lol.

i have installed a hosts file before but i think it was responsible for whn using internet explorer i had to click the back button twice sometimes to go back one page i got the hosts file from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm