We have Avast free and Windows XP and Spybot. I never have problems when I logged on to our computer, neither does our son. But when my husband logs in, he immediately gets an avast message strongly suggesting he log in via the sandbox. There’s aomething about Spybot and teatimer.exe. He logs on via the sandbox and then the computer works for a time, then his freecell game or whatever he’s doing freezes up and sometimes the screen goes blank. Only happens to my husband.
Any ideas of what to do? I’m not that much of a techie and I’d appreciate any help I can get.
Teatimer is known to have some conflicts with Avast, among others. I don’t know the reason (or the trigger) why this happened to one of your Windows accounts but not in the others. Something is there in some “start up” area.
I don’t know if whatever is in the start up are is worth checking / finding out what exactly is.
Whatever the case, if you search this forum you will see several suggestions about getting read of teatimer. You may (or may not) keep using the other components.
ady4um is correct in saying that teatimer cant be run with avast, something to do with it’s immunization, personally i’d get rid of Spybot all together and use malwarebytes as your secondary scanner.
Remember to de-immunize spybot before deleting.
TeaTimer can be disabled from running. See http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2827. I am having no conflicts without TeaTimer. I’m not using the new beta version of SpyBot Search & Destroy.
Gopher John yes spybot will run with avast if teatimer is disabled but the fact of the matter is spybot was the leader of it game years ago but not anymore and there are much better - lighter programs to do the job now days, you need to move on from the dark ages ( come into the light )
With nothing running resident, it’s as light as programs get. The protections that it offers when non-resident are passive, like SpywareBlaster’s protections are passive. It is definitely getting long in the tooth, but I probably won’t be installing SpyBot Search & Destroy 2.x when it’s out of beta as so far in beta it’s a resource hog. I use MalwareBytes free to compensate for any deficiency in SpyBot S&D’s scanning capabilities.
