Java installer add/deleting Registry values?

[st1mulant]

Hello there,

I've only recently started using Spybot and the TeaTimer.exe

I installed updates to Java and was told that the Registry had been added (which I allowed, as I trust Java), however straight after that I was prompted to Delete a registry value (again, I believe it to be linked to java).

Is this normal?

Why would Java delete Registry values?

Any advice or help would be appreciated, cheers :cowboy:

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

What exactly do you mean with you was prompted to delete a registry value? What did the message say exactly?

Please read this information about TeaTimer:
What is the Resident TeaTimer? (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/33.html)
and Why does Resident TeaTimer terminate the application before asking? (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.
The tutorial (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html) (point 8) on our homepage should also help explaining.

If you have scanned and fixed items with Spybot you have to allow the registry change that the Resident TeaTimer is asking for.
Only then the items will be deleted completely.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot