Recent content by DougCuk

When I updated Spybot today it updated from v1.6.0.30 to version 1.6.2 And now in the main program it shows as v1.6.2.46 However when you check the version number from the Teatimer tray icon (using the About option) it still shows the old version number for the main program. The About Popup...

Several people have reported that AVG Free v8 has recently begun triggering a TeaTimer warning about an unlisted Registry change. The change is not in the current official TeaTimer Whitelist and so requires the user to agree the alteration. The TeaTimer popup lists the change as "avgrsstarter"...

One specific thing to look out for with these websites is they all give an easy to miss warning at the foot of the front page - often in a very hard to read colour and in a very small font size - which always seems to read as follows: This says it all really - We just provide a link to software...

This is a very clever con trick - what they are selling is not software but a membership to a website, as the invoice says: You have purchased: 3 Year VIP Membership and 1 Extra Features The website (2008search-destroy.com) is deliberately misleading - using the product name and a very similar...

Some of you are already aware of the "Delay Opening Folders Caused by SDHelper" problem. I have now located the cause of this problem - which only affects Spybot v1.6. The long version of the saga can be found in this thread: Resident SDHelper slow in 1.6 -...

I recently upgraded to Spybot v1.6 and have noticed a new delay in Windows Explorer responses. I have tracked this delay to the Resident IE component of Spybot - which caused no problem in v1.5.2. I am seeing a 3 second delay when opening Windows Explorer or My Computer and this repeats on every...