caution about spybot search and destroy

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AS for Spybot, nothing new in virtually all security applications at sometime poping up the odd false positive, I just had one earlier when using XofSpy, it said my winload.exe file was a keylogger, while yes its name is associated with PCtattletale malware, mine is the Vista bootloader and is legit.

Bad thing is if your not a cluey user then you may delete these legit files if you dont research their legitimacy before deleting.

In majority of cases the next malware dat update covers fixing these.


Teatimer is well known for doing that, many I know have it turned off, but as its a resident scan, if you have multiple resident malware scanners running then this may happen, same as Firewalls and Antivirus you should only run one resident malware scanner, you can have multiple on-demand scanners and those cause no CPU % issues.

 

Tea Timer is not something I would run, it sadly, has been buggy since day one with some pretty serious issues. Frankly, if your careful, you need a good firewall and anti-virus, you might try AVG Anti-spyware, I have had no issues with it:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/AVG_Anti-Spyware_d5287.html