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Spybot, Popups on booting up

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janitha Original post #1
Feb 8, 2006 at 2:37 PM
Every time I boot up my PC (Win XP Home), several popups from Spybot apprears each saying some "Registry Value Changed". It may be a normal behaviour of Spybot but since it seems very irritating, is there any means to stop such popups appearing?

V.Prem Kumar
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Feb 8, 2006 at 3:15 PM
You have turned on the Realtime protection service of Spybot... Go to Mode->Advanced. Now, go to Tools on left menu and select Resident. Make sure TeaTimer is unchecked...

Arun
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janitha #3
Feb 8, 2006 at 5:19 PM
sakumar79 said:
You have turned on the Realtime protection service of Spybot... Go to Mode->Advanced. Now, go to Tools on left menu and select Resident. Make sure TeaTimer is unchecked...

Arun

Will making the realtime protection (Tea Timer) disabled be risky?

V.Prem Kumar
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Feb 8, 2006 at 6:55 PM
Turn it on during installation of software and switch it off at other times... Should be okay... Personally, since I rarely install stuff, (and when I do, I get software that I trust from original website), I dont use the realtime protection... Instead, I simply run the scan regularly to confirm absense of spyware...

Do ensure you have antivirus and firewall running, then you dont need to have Spybot's realtime protection running all the time...

Arun
anandk
anandk #5
Feb 8, 2006 at 9:09 PM
disable the teatimer. pretty safe.
if u wann play real safe, enable it when on the net.
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janitha #6
Feb 8, 2006 at 10:07 PM
anandk said:
disable the teatimer. pretty safe.
if u wann play real safe, enable it when on the net.

Thank you all for the help.

V.Prem Kumar