Solution to fix the pop-ups in TeaTimer
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I had recently installed 1.4 on my sister's two Windows 98SE machines, and immediately ran into the teatimer problem. I thought it probably had something to do with her older OS, so I just left teatimer disabled. Glad I found this forum and thread. I used syreneD's patch and it worked as promised. Very easy to do. Also, I was using 1.3 on my own machine, and found out thru this forum that I was missing out by not running the 1.4 version. A quick download of the program, install syreneD's patch, and I'm good to go. Thanks everyone. :bigthumb:
SteveRestless
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What I've been doing, rather than messing around with patching, is using the TeaTimer.exe that came with Spybot 1.4 Release Candidate 2, which does not have the same bug, and has worked fine on all of the systems I have used it on.
I could post a download link to it, if there is interest.
I could post a download link to it, if there is interest.
Strange
That worked great, THANKS!!
But I find it strange that in two communications with the Kollera folks over the last several years, all I got the first time was the normal tech's response, 'It's a known problem and our best people are working on it', and the second time, I was advised to keep playing Blind Man's Bluff. Never pointed me to this Forum or this solution. Maybe someone needs to tell them there is an easy solution. How hard would it be to put that in one of those Updates? Maybe they need to get some MrSoftie consultants to come in and show them how to do online Updates.
That worked great, THANKS!!
But I find it strange that in two communications with the Kollera folks over the last several years, all I got the first time was the normal tech's response, 'It's a known problem and our best people are working on it', and the second time, I was advised to keep playing Blind Man's Bluff. Never pointed me to this Forum or this solution. Maybe someone needs to tell them there is an easy solution. How hard would it be to put that in one of those Updates? Maybe they need to get some MrSoftie consultants to come in and show them how to do online Updates.
Grey Ghost
New member
Thank you SO much for this. This has always made me a bit nuts. Nice to see a way to fix it.
Wtf
This darling little patch popped up as "Gate from Hell" pest by pestpatrol. WTF are you doing jerk????
This darling little patch popped up as "Gate from Hell" pest by pestpatrol. WTF are you doing jerk????
If you have a 'black listed' item
Thanks - fixed my problems
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- but to fix the ones I had accidentaly blacklisted when trying to bypass the bug I had to edit the 'RegKeyBlack.sbe' file - normaly found in 'application data' for the user under 'Spybot - Search & Destroy,Excludes' -
Thanks - fixed my problems
: - but to fix the ones I had accidentaly blacklisted when trying to bypass the bug I had to edit the 'RegKeyBlack.sbe' file - normaly found in 'application data' for the user under 'Spybot - Search & Destroy,Excludes' -
Actually, a new TeaTimer release is in internal beta testing. We expect to give it to the forums experts late next week. Among the new features will be a system for automatic white- or blacklisting of registry entries based on the file they point to, better protection of snapshots against changes by malware, more monitored entries and some fixed small memory leaks (well yes and that ugly graphical glitch, for which Borland has kind of apologized by now ).
The reason for delays... well, just take a look at the current news about Symantec. We would have loved to fix so-called incompatibilities and waited for details... and waited...
And of course we worked on updates for the detection engine itself. The next engine update will nearly double the ways we can use to detect malware.
).The reason for delays... well, just take a look at the current news about Symantec. We would have loved to fix so-called incompatibilities and waited for details... and waited...
And of course we worked on updates for the detection engine itself. The next engine update will nearly double the ways we can use to detect malware.
md usa spybot fan
Spybot Advisor Team [Retired]
PepiMK:
Thanks for the information on the work in progress. I'm looking forward to seeing the results of your effort on our behalf.
Regards,
md usa spybot fan
Thanks for the information on the work in progress. I'm looking forward to seeing the results of your effort on our behalf.
Regards,
md usa spybot fan
Never mind Symantec. They will not respond to your requests. They know that they have the resources to fend you off. Do what you think is best for your software and I believe that ultimately, it will be the users who will give you a pat in the back for a job well done.:bigthumb:
Most Excellent, and this tweak verified an infection of the perverse sort!
READ ALL OF THIS!!! Man, the malformed alert box drove me up a wall. I love what TeaTimer is 'supposed' to be doing for me, but it always made me dizzy as I was learning to key the registery. So this fix helped immediately!! Thank you! Well it also proved my girlfriend correct and I thought she was cRAZy.!.! Her puter was acting totally strange since she couldn't afford protection. We put Spybot and CA's EZvirus (free for a year) on her puter. She was skeptical thinking 'Norton' was the well known brand to stick with -- Mcafee sucks now!! So she thinks she is a wiz now that she sees me keying with the registry and services. She starts complaining something is taking over her puter and I am laughing, not saying: its really YOU; MonKEY, shutting down your services and now they wont come back up!!! She keeps freakin' and I am wierded out by what she is saying; how all of her screens are not real, but imitation wrapper screens. Sounds wierd huh? Well, I went to fix her puter to get some ease back in our relationship and brought this fix of Spybot's alert box. I ran a fresh version of Spybot from my CD-R and to my amazement it didnt have the alert box problem, but looked really special in its formatting. And she said "see I told you something is taking over and putting up fake screens!!!" Cmon, you agree she is crAZy right?? I checked Spybot's source using Reshacker and it said 160, I changed it to 190, reran and spybot looked as it had, no alert box problem and supremely formatted. I was thinking maybe she isn't crazy, maybe something has infected her puter and mirroring everything she has. I noticed my CD-R view in Windows Explorer had duplicate folder entries!!! So I used REShacker again on Spybot to change the 'Remember my decision' to read something else. And it was not changed!!!! Holy MOLY, she wasn't Crazy! This weirdness we had been grappling with for a month was not her being crazy, it was really an infection mirroring and putting up 'wrappers' in place of the real applications!. The Spybot 'wrapper' even looked better than the real Spybot --- Thats when I thought I had to flatten it and not let this infection eat into our great sex life anymore.. lol. Mind you, she has been using protection the whole time this infection spread!! Amazing story huh... and heart breaking at times! So this morning, not foolling around, I think I shut down all the bios, and was somehow able to get a recovery console up to format the harddrive and then install XP. But who knows, I didn't think there was a recovery console in Home Edition, so maybe it was a wrapper and this infection is still in/out there! Whew... wish I could tell you more and have some reports, but it had shut us out... Feel free to ask any questions, as I'd love resolve from answers. And a word, if you are listening as you probably are, to you guys looking with super composite lenses from far far away... supreme work!!! -- ehh, jesus called it outerdarkness... ramble on...
READ ALL OF THIS!!! Man, the malformed alert box drove me up a wall. I love what TeaTimer is 'supposed' to be doing for me, but it always made me dizzy as I was learning to key the registery. So this fix helped immediately!! Thank you! Well it also proved my girlfriend correct and I thought she was cRAZy.!.! Her puter was acting totally strange since she couldn't afford protection. We put Spybot and CA's EZvirus (free for a year) on her puter. She was skeptical thinking 'Norton' was the well known brand to stick with -- Mcafee sucks now!! So she thinks she is a wiz now that she sees me keying with the registry and services. She starts complaining something is taking over her puter and I am laughing, not saying: its really YOU; MonKEY, shutting down your services and now they wont come back up!!! She keeps freakin' and I am wierded out by what she is saying; how all of her screens are not real, but imitation wrapper screens. Sounds wierd huh? Well, I went to fix her puter to get some ease back in our relationship and brought this fix of Spybot's alert box. I ran a fresh version of Spybot from my CD-R and to my amazement it didnt have the alert box problem, but looked really special in its formatting. And she said "see I told you something is taking over and putting up fake screens!!!" Cmon, you agree she is crAZy right?? I checked Spybot's source using Reshacker and it said 160, I changed it to 190, reran and spybot looked as it had, no alert box problem and supremely formatted. I was thinking maybe she isn't crazy, maybe something has infected her puter and mirroring everything she has. I noticed my CD-R view in Windows Explorer had duplicate folder entries!!! So I used REShacker again on Spybot to change the 'Remember my decision' to read something else. And it was not changed!!!! Holy MOLY, she wasn't Crazy! This weirdness we had been grappling with for a month was not her being crazy, it was really an infection mirroring and putting up 'wrappers' in place of the real applications!. The Spybot 'wrapper' even looked better than the real Spybot --- Thats when I thought I had to flatten it and not let this infection eat into our great sex life anymore.. lol. Mind you, she has been using protection the whole time this infection spread!! Amazing story huh... and heart breaking at times! So this morning, not foolling around, I think I shut down all the bios, and was somehow able to get a recovery console up to format the harddrive and then install XP. But who knows, I didn't think there was a recovery console in Home Edition, so maybe it was a wrapper and this infection is still in/out there! Whew... wish I could tell you more and have some reports, but it had shut us out... Feel free to ask any questions, as I'd love resolve from answers. And a word, if you are listening as you probably are, to you guys looking with super composite lenses from far far away... supreme work!!! -- ehh, jesus called it outerdarkness... ramble on...