JD,
From:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/33.html
What is the Resident TeaTimer?
The Resident TeaTimer is a new tool of Spybot-S&D which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated. It immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some options, how to deal with this process in the future: You can set TeaTimer to:
be informed, when the process tries to start again
automatically kill the process
or generally allow the process to run
There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.
In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either "Allow" or "Deny" the change.
As TeaTimer is always running in the background, it takes some resources of about 5 MB.
--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org
On installation, I passed on "Tea Time," not knowing what it was. What is it
for and, if I should have it, can it still be installed?
Come to think of it, there was another option which promised browser
protection, which I accepted. I'd like to know what that is too.
Thanks.
