Does anybody use Spybot's Tea Timer ?

[syzygy]

Just curious. If a new process tries to begin or something attempts to change your registry or startup, Tea Timer will notify you to approve, deny, or terminate the request. Comes free with Spybot. Low resource usage. Works in the background. Wondering how effective you all find the proggie to be.

 

[brokenhallelujah]

It's effective. Kinda buggy from the exposure I have had to it, but effective.

 

[Ken90630]

Yeah, I used to use Spybot S&D. I liked it, but yeah, Tea Timer got to be somewhat annoying. Like you say, it throws up an alert everytime something in the Registry changes. Great idea from a malware-protection standpoint, but it gets tiresome 'cuz so many legit things modify the Registry too (Windows Updates, security program updates, and, of course, pretty much any new software you install). And if whatever you're installing makes multiple Registry changes, you get multiple alerts. Sometimes you sit there and click "Allow" a half dozen times or more during the installation process.

What I found myself wanting to do was turn it off before installing anything, then turn it back on. But I couldn't figure out a way to do it. I think you have to uninstall the whole program, then re-install it without selecting Tea Timer as part of the package. About the time I was going to do that, I switched over to a new anti-spyware program (two actually). That was about a year ago though, so I dunno if this is still the case.

If you don't mind all the alerts, I think it's a great idea. Judging by how often it threw alerts up at me, my impression is that it's quite effective too. 😛

 

[jadinolf]

Yep, Tea Timer is too annoying and I'm too dumb to use it so I stopped using it soon after it came out.

I do however, use Spybot S&D.

 

[Czar]

it works,

but sooo many things constantly change the registry so its always bugging you

 

[BladeVenom]

It can also conflict with other anti-spyware programs which results in 99% CPU usage.