Installing Spybot S&D

[Leo Leong]

In setup, Spybot asks to select additional tasks to install. Permanent protection: use Internet Explorer protection (SD Helper) and use system settings protection (Tea Timer). What do these mean?

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

The resident section of Spybot - Search & Destroy is devided into two parts: the SDHelper and the TeaTimer.

The *Resident TeaTimer* is a Spybot-S&D tool perpetually monitoring 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.

The TeaTimer is always running in the background.


The *SDHelper/Immunize*

Spybot-S&D allows you to immunize your computer against some spyware. It currently offers three different immunities:

Permanent Browser immunity: Similar to JavaCools SpywareBlaster, this allows you to tweak some internal Browser settings to block the installation of known spyware (and similar threats) installers via ActiveX. Spybot-S&D is able to set all entries for those that are in its database to be blocked. If you want to distinguish, you should install SpywareBlaster.

Permanently running bad download blocker for your Browser: This is a second layer of protection. While the Permanent Immunity blocks installers by their ActiveX ID, this one blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.

That's the way to activate it: run Spybot-S&D, switch to the "Advanced mode" via the menu bar item "Mode" --> hit "YES" --> select "Tools" in the navigation bar on the left --> "Resident" and there you can tick the checkboxes in front of the two tools.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[blues]

sd helper blocks bad downloads, and teatimer asks you if you want to allow changes on your computer when something try to make changes. teatimer also terminates malicious processes. i dont use teatimer, so i dont know if it does other things than this, but it is good to have for some people for extra protection.

spybotsandra: how do i see when someone is replying to a thread before me? i was writing when you posted.