SpyBot/Teatimer crashing

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William W. Plummer

One of our machines (Win98ME) crashes every few hours. It leaves a white
box with no message and a single "Close" button which works. However, the
machine needs to be rebooted to get it working again because of
"Insufficient memory" errors. Today, I noticed the same box except it had
a message regarding a page fault from the kernel and saying Teatimer was
involved.

Has anyone suffered the same problem? Solved it? Thanks.
 
One of our machines (Win98ME) crashes every few hours. It leaves a white
box with no message and a single "Close" button which works. However, the
machine needs to be rebooted to get it working again because of
"Insufficient memory" errors. Today, I noticed the same box except it had
a message regarding a page fault from the kernel and saying Teatimer was
involved.

Has anyone suffered the same problem? Solved it? Thanks.
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Early versions of spybot had a problematic teatimer.exe and would consume
huge amounts of memory eventually bringing some pcs to a standstill.The
latest version (1.3 build 20040510)fixed that so check that you have the
latest version.Spybot as youve probably noticed is a total resource hog on
98 , so id advise to shut all non nessacary programmes down before
running/scanning , as the low resources can also crash/freeze your computer.
me
 
One of our machines (Win98ME) crashes every few hours. It leaves a white
box with no message and a single "Close" button which works. However, the
machine needs to be rebooted to get it working again because of
"Insufficient memory" errors. Today, I noticed the same box except it had
a message regarding a page fault from the kernel and saying Teatimer was
involved.

Has anyone suffered the same problem? Solved it? Thanks.
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I have it running on a (second) old PC on WInME with very little
ram... but Teatimer works fine... no problem.
 
I have the same problem with Win98SE. If I leave teatimer on and my
computer goes into energy saving mod I have the Close button displayed
when I bring the monitor back up. I do not have to reboot but it messes
up my system tray. What I have done is put teatimer on my desktop and
turn it off when I leave my computer. Then I just start it again when I
come back to the computer.
 
Turning off Teatimer is not a good idea. It guards against changes to the
registry -- that's how your IE home page gets hijacked and other changes get
made. I hope that the SpyBot producers fix the problems. But I'm going to
look for other solutions.
 
The difference is probably that I am on dialup. So when I turn teatimer
off it is because I am leaving my computer and I am no longer connected
to the internet. I only turn if off when I am leaving the computer for
some length of time that would allow sleep mode to start. When I return
to the computer I restart teatimer and thus I am always protected by
teatimer when I am connected to the internet.
 
I have the same problem with Win98SE. If I leave teatimer on and my
computer goes into energy saving mod I have the Close button displayed
when I bring the monitor back up. I do not have to reboot but it messes
up my system tray. What I have done is put teatimer on my desktop and
turn it off when I leave my computer. Then I just start it again when I
come back to the computer.
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I have noticed MVP's in the MS groups recommend to only use energy
savings mode on laptops for which it was designed. On PC's, it tends
to be troublesome for many users and provides very limited benefit.

BoB
 
Turning off Teatimer is not a good idea. It guards against changes to the
registry -- that's how your IE home page gets hijacked and other changes get
made. I hope that the SpyBot producers fix the problems. But I'm going to
look for other solutions.
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I use RegistryProt to guard the registry - I got rid of Teatimer
for the reasons noted by OPs

You can get RegistryProt from
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=products


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Graeme Challinor
 
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