Jarmo P wrote:
Not to mention that I personally am not able to run resident antispyware programs. Cannot understand them.
Tried MSAS and SpyBot Tea Timer resident. Never knew what to answer when installing programs
Installed Yahoo Messenger with voice, SpyBot resident kept popping up, preventing some registry changes when I tried to run it in limited user account.
As a result, when I tried voice call, my computer froze, could not even bring up Task Manager. Only power button to bring my system back.
Admitted YM latest is a bothering install, toolbars on browsers etc. in the recomended install type.
Try the Spyware program I mentioned: SpywareBlaster
This program is FREE and has a lot of options available including System Snapshot which is nice, but other than that I really don't use any except for disabling the blocking of my start page cookies which I want allowed. All you really have to do is make sure the DataBase is current by checking to see if an Update is available every week or so. Currently there are 4,349 items in the DataBase.
The critical difference between SpywareBlaster and SpyBot is that the SpywareBlaster will BLOCK spyware before it can get on your computer. SpyBot just scans your computer to see if you have spyware already installed on your computer just as the Virus Scan in Avast will scan you computer so see if a Virus got by Avast's resident Virus shield protection. One program is innoculating your computer and the other is testing to see if the innoculation has been effective.
As far as the SpyBot Tea Timer resident is concerned I really like this feature. It is a function of SpyBot which will monitor critical registry settings and offers the options that gives the user the choice to either BLOCK the action or ALLOW the action. So when you say "SpyBot resident kept popping up, preventing some registry changes when I tried to run it in limited user account" what the Tea Timer is doing is letting you know that an attempt at changing a critical registry setting is being made and it is asking you if you want the change to be made. You have the option to "Allow" or "Block".
If you have a program that is constantly changing the registry settings that are monitored by SpyBot's Tea Timer then it is obviously very annoying. So you have essentially three choices: 1) Just don't use the SpyBot Tea Timer 2) Use the function and answer the prompts each time to "Allow" the change 3) Turn Tea Timer off when you use the program that needs to make frequent changes to the registry.
As I said the Tea Timer only monitors high level (critical) registry settings, registry settings that are commonly changed are not monitored and thus these changes are transparent to the user and done without incident.
As I said if you know you will be installing or using a program that will make many changes then the Tea Timer can be turned off during that time. In my case I personally just leave it on all the time so for instance I knew that when I installed NAV2004 it made 8 critical registry changes which of course I allowed. In the case of Avast it made 3 critical changes when it installed. This way I know what the program is doing to some degree. I personally do not run any programs that regularly change these critical areas of the registry so I prefer to have Tea Timer running so that I know when something is attempting to make these changes to my registry. I have occassionally "blocked" a change to the registry when I have not known why or what is wanting to make the change, where as if I'm installing or running something that I know might want to make changes then I simply allow the changes.
