Do you use Tea Timer w/ Spybot?

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Just wondering how many of you guys use Tea Timer as it seems like a wee bit of a resource hog.

How effective is it?
 
I personally dont use it and when I install S&D on my clients machines I tend to leave TeaTimer off because its very intrusive :)
 
Nope. I just use Spybot to immunise me against the threats but I don't bother with the TeaTimer thing for the same reason as you. Resource hogging. OK on my Vista x64, quad core setup it probably wouldn't affect me much but I do OK without it and I don't visit dodgy sites so I don't think I need an active layer of protection. :)
 
I find it annoying as it brings up a window most of the time there's something installing and changing the registry (I think).
 
I don't mind it at all, I've never seen it be any kind of resource hog :confused:
Iirc, Tea Timer monitors the registry, and it's not just dodgy sites that can change registry settings :p I use it also to stop certain programs from asserting themselves into the start-up process automatically.
I also like to know when something in my registry changes so I can maintain what is changing in it.
 
its not very effective tbh. i had a problem where some trojan/spyware crap kept reinstalling itself on boot up.....teatimer never gave any kind of warning that something was getting installed or being changed.
 
Do any of you use Comodo free firewall? What setting (if any) do you have Proactive+ set to?

And you know if you block an application from accessing the internet and select 'remember my answer' how do you then unblock it?

Cheers.
 
No, and always turn it off on clients machines too as they haven't got a clue what it's telling them and guess anyway.
 
I don't install or activate the Tea-Timer functionality of SpyBot. I did it once by mistake and regretted it - found it a real pain.
 
Goose said:
Do any of you use Comodo free firewall? What setting (if any) do you have Proactive+ set to?

And you know if you block an application from accessing the internet and select 'remember my answer' how do you then unblock it?

Cheers.
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You mean Defence+? I use it on the default 'safe' mode I think.

To unblock an App, I think you go to the Firewall tab, and then Advanced and the top option on the list.

(going from memory I'm afraid, as I'm at work - can check later at home if you want)
 
MarcLister said:
Nope. I just use Spybot to immunise me against the threats but I don't bother with the TeaTimer thing for the same reason as you. Resource hogging. OK on my Vista x64, quad core setup it probably wouldn't affect me much but I do OK without it and I don't visit dodgy sites so I don't think I need an active layer of protection. :)
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This. Plus it's annoying :p
 
I just use CCleaner most of the time, I run it after every internet session, takes less than a second.

Occasionally, I will install Spybot just to give things the once over, so I never need to use the Tea Timer thing. When I have in the past though, I've also found it a tad annoying, like others have said.
 
My first experiences with Tea Timer were really rather bad, and I deliberately avoided it after that. Mind you, I don't bother with S&D either now. Most of my browsing is routed via a Linux box running a local DNS server and proxy. That blocks a lot of the worst offenders.
 
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