Tea Timer popups

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Please start your own tread and do not post in more than half year old threads.
Thanks.

Which version of Spybot do you run?
Perhaps you have blacklisted processes?
Please right-click the Resident icon in the system tray "Spybot S&D resident" and select "Settings". There you will find 4 lists for remembered decisions (allowed/denied processes and registry changes). In order to remove an entry just click on the cross next to it. TeaTimer will then "forget" this decision and you will be asked again the next time.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[md usa spybot fan]

avg4me2:

... Also, the "deny change" tab is not highlighted and I am not able to select it. I can only select the "allow change" tab....

What was the "Category" and type of "Change" where the "Deny change" was grayed out?

During some changes the "Deny change" option is grayed out (not an option). This appears to be on changes such as the removal of a Browser Helper Object (Value deleted). This is speculation but I assume that the "Deny change" is grayed out because by the time TeaTimer recognizes the Registry change the underlying code for the BHO has been deleted and therefore denying the change would do no good to save the BHO from being deleted. I assume that the same would hold true for a "Value deleted" for an ActiveX process and possibly other changes. In this case the registry change dialog serves as a warning that something has changed.

[avg4me2]

spybotsandra:

I am using Spybot 1.4. I don't see a "Spybot S&D resident" anywhere?


md usa spybot fan:

Category = Browser Menu Extension

Change = Value Deleted

A window with code 11:44 popped up "registry change denied".


Thank you.

[Terminator]

The resident is under Spybot > Advance Mode > Tools > Resident.

[md usa spybot fan]

avg4me2:

spybotsandra:

I am using Spybot 1.4. I don't see a "Spybot S&D resident" anywhere?

In this statement:

Please right-click the Resident icon in the system tray "Spybot S&D resident" and select "Settings".

spybotsandra is talking about right clicking on TeaTimer's icon (actually titled "Spybot-SD Resident") which should be present in the taskbar notification area (system tray). It looks like a document with a padlock in the lower left hand corner.

md usa spybot fan:

Category = Browser Menu Extension

Change = Value Deleted

A window with code 11:44 popped up "registry change denied".

I am some confused now. Originally you were talking about a registry were there the "Deny change" was grayed out. From the "Browser Menu Extension" "Value Deleted", I assume that something was removing an entry from Internet Explorer's Context Menu. Now you are indicating that you got a notification "registry change denied". If you are indicating that both thing happened during that same change, it would indicate that you closed dialog without clicking the "Allow change" button (there was a defect in TeaTimer 1.4 that allowed that to happen - Spybot 1.5 has corrected that defect).

What were you doing at the time you received the TeaTimer dialog and did you just close the dialog by clicking on the red X in the upper right hand corner before clicking "Allow change".

[avg4me2]

md usa spybot fan:

What were you doing at the time you received the TeaTimer dialog and did you just close the dialog by clicking on the red X in the upper right hand corner before clicking "Allow change".

When I went offline, the Teatimer Window showed the message that I indicated. All of the buttons that I mentioned were still grayed out and inoperable. When I clicked the "allow change" button, the popup showed "registry change allowed", but the original "Value Deleted" window would not go away. When I just clicked the red X to close the window, the "registry change denied" popup repeatedly showed in the lower right, and the "Value Deleted" window would not go away untill I shut Teatimer off.

When I went online again, the window came up again. This time the "deny change" button was active. I clicked it and "registry change denied" popped up. The window stayed and I clicked "deny change" again. Another "registry change denied" popped up, and then the Teatimer window closed.

I don't get it.

I looked in "Resident Settings" and there was nothing listed in any of the four catagories.


Thanks.

[md usa spybot fan]

avg4me2:

Please post the portion of the Resident.log that shows the changes you are having problems with.

1. There are several ways (4 listed below) to access the TeaTimer's Resident.log file:
   
   1. Right click on the TeaTimer (Spybot-SD Resident) system tray icon and select Show Log.
   2. Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced Mode > Tools > Resident.
   3. Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced mode > Tools > View Reports > View Previous reports. Select the Resident.log file and open it.
   4. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the Resident.log file located in one of the following directories:
      
      • Windows 95 or 98:
        C:\Windows\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs
      • Windows ME:
        C:\Windows\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs
      • Windows NT, 2000 or XP:
        C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs
      • Windows Vista:
        C:\ProgramData\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs
      
      Double click on Resident.log file and it should open with Notepad.
2. To copy information from the log into a post in the forum:
   
   1. Copy the information into the Clipboard:
      
      • Highlight the portion of the log that you want to copy.
      • Right click and select Copy.
   2. Paste (Ctrl+V) the information from the Clipboard to a new post in this thread.

[jimeeb]

The TeaTimer is a resident tool which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated and changes to some critical registry keys. This is redundant to Windows Defender's superior and less intrusive real-time protection.
So IF you are running windows defender, my suggestion is to uninstall spybot then reinstall selecting the option NOT to install tea timer.
If you are NOT running windows defender, my suggestion is to get it.

[blues]

why make it so difficult? just disable it in advanced mode

[TheZeDD]

This is retoricle and this problem is not only fixed but solved as far as if the buttons are jumbled/compressed together in version 1.5, correct?

There is also a workaround fix if you run into this jumbled/compressed "POPUP" window while using TeaTimer which prevented users from seeing to TWO optionable BUTTON's to push, "ACCEPT" and "DENY".

Why is this thread even open after nearly 6 years of initial and about 3 years after the previous Moderator/Contributor posted "do not post after 6 months old" ?

This issue was fized in 1.5. But, what I recently opened a post on under the thread titled "TeaTimer Popup HowTo Resize Entire Window" is just that, how to resize, or enlarge to a larger default, the TeamTimer Popup window/prompts while running TeaTimer:

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?p=398488#post398488

This is the actual fix and page if you have the jumbled/compressed/missing buttons combination issue, which this thread was opened for, see the title "Solution to fix the pop-ups in TeaTimer", which it was except that was part of the issue but not as a whole as far as resizing to a LARGER "default" window LARGER then whats been stated!:

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=122

--> See the pictures (.jpg's/Jpegs) that are included on these two links from that page of the TeaTimer popup window prompt:

The Before: http://forums.spybot.info/attachment.php?attachmentid=319&d=1138910241

The After: http://forums.spybot.info/attachment.php?attachmentid=320&d=1138910284

Even in the AFTER window you still have to STRETCH that little bugger out so you can see EXACTLY what you are ACCEPTING or denying just the same :/

The window needs to slide left further and open larger to the right with the appropriate text fixes included :D

- Z