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Thread: Teatimer - a dangerous toy in the hands of an amateur?

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    Default Teatimer - a dangerous toy in the hands of an amateur?

    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.
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    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-
    Last edited by Matt; 2009-03-01 at 14:45.
    Best regards - Beste Grüße,

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    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.
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