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1eyedjack
2009-03-01, 12:18
I am wondering whether installing teatimer as a resident program is something that should be left strictly to the experts?

Failing to allow a change to the registry that is right and proper can be almost as damaging, it seems to me, as allowing a change that should not go through. And bona fide changes are likely to outnumber the malicious ones in Spades. The information that is displayed by Teatimer's prompt, when a write attempt is made, might as well be encrypted by pgp for all the sense that it makes to me, who freely admits to not being in that circle.

Matt
2009-03-01, 15:43
Hi 1eyedjack,

Team Spybot is aware of this problem.

The future Spybot 2.0 won't have TeaTimer any longer. It will replaced by another tool, which will have a kind of "real-time protection". :)

You can always dis-able Teatimer if you like (during software installations for example).

Some information:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=281
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/index.html

Best regards,
-Matt-

PepiMK
2009-03-02, 14:02
And as for 1.6:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2009-02-25.html
http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=42
Or even the beta TeaTimer from within the update function.