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    Second attempt to send this query. First time I didn`t see a Submit button ! I`m new to this.

    I`m running an HP Pavilion T3640 desktop with XP Media Centre edition.

    On my first Spybot scan I was told two or three times that there were registry changes and asked if I wanted to permit them or not. How should I know ? Registry`s a no-go area for all but PhD techies. Changes from what ? I allowed some and denied the rest.

    Then at various subsequent times multiple oblong windowlets appeared at the right-hand side of the screen telling me repeatedly certain things were on my white list or black list. They seem to persist for a while. I haven`t found a button to click to remove them.

    Later I changed my mind, found a window which allows changes, and denied the lot.

    Anybody shed any light ?

    Eigenblog

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    Hello,

    Please read this information about TeaTimer:
    http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/33.html
    and http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/34.html
    If you surf the web and without any user interaction the teatimer pops up and warns about a registry change it is better to "deny", but if you install something by yourself it is OK to "allow" the change.

    Best regards
    Sandra
    Team Spybot

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    Same thing happened to me and I cannot access programs on my desk top or do a system restore. Tells me to do create a association in control panel..yikes! also cannot uninstall anything...no access...


    Other post: http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=19088
    Last edited by tashi; 2007-10-18 at 09:23. Reason: Added link

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    Default Registry changes

    Thanks for swift and plain-English reply,Spybotsandra from Germany. Perfect English ! Gratuliere. I note your kind URLs but I think I`ll take md usa spybot fan`s hint and disable TeaTimer because I did OK without it till I loaded Spybot and because the word registry frightens me.

    I`m always wishing someone would write an educated, numerate layman`s book of about 200 pages, plus big fat glossary, explaining how computers work. It shouldn`t be beyond the competence of a good teacher. I asked a Professor of computing in Cambridge and he said that the state of computer documentation is lamentable. Just so.


    Eigenblog

    Other topic: http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=18991
    Last edited by tashi; 2007-10-18 at 09:19. Reason: Added link

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