question about spybot 1.5

so i just newly update my spybot 1.4 to 1.5.

after i restart my computer, i noticed that spybot installed a system tray icon. anyone here remove it? how to do it?

and, is it a good idea to enable teatimer/resident sd helper? does it interfere with my other security/tools program? i have a Zonealarm security suite, which has the capabilities of blocking bad pages also... i also have registry mechanics.

edit: oh and is it worth having extra such as the spybot, spyware blaster, adaware, on top of the ZoneAlarm security suite? will cause potential problems? coz i know that you can't have 2 antivirus or firewall.. but what about antispyware?

 

Choose one program and stick to it.
Spybot is good not the best, but free program.
And it works.

 

For anti-spyware, I use a bunch. Adaware, Windows Defender, and Spybot. None of them interfere.

I don't know about the system tray icon, I'd just hide it.

As far as Teatimer and SD Helper are concerned, I just use Teatimer. I used SD Helper a while back and it was super annoying, and sometimes was a pop-up and other stayed under the windows, and since it wasn't in the taskbar, you never knew it was blocking an installation.

Greg

 

IMO you should use exactly one antispyware program with real-time protection turned on... and if you want one or more additional non-real-time scanners so you can run a scan periodically (or if/when you suspect infection), that's not a bad idea.

So basically, just shut off the real-time protection (if available) on all the programs except one.

 

I agree with you, swarmer. However, I use SpywareBlaster and recently reinstalled SpywareTerminator; forgot to disable the real-time protection, and as far as i can tell, haven't had any problems. Am going to disable the function now that you've jogged my memory, which is short at least one stick.

 

so is it a good idea to uninstall spybot?

i have spyware blaster, ad-aware, and the ZA security suite.

i'm not sure if the ZA actually have teatimer protection or the like of real time spyware detection... it does have antispyware and spysite blocking though...

 

Not sure sure about your ZA comment; haven't used it in a long time.

About Spybot, though, I can't think of any reason to uninstall unless it gives you problems for some reason. No single spyware app is sufficient according to articles I've read online and in different computer magazines. Since it's already installed you can choose to just ignore it or use it occasionally to reassure yourself that your system is clean.

 

Multiple real-time scanners may not always interfere with each other, but they do have a performance cost.

Anyway, I don't really see any harm in leaving a bunch of extra scanners installed and available to run on demand... just turn off the real-time scanning feature. (I don't see the need to run out and collect a dozen of them either though.)

However, if it's in the system tray (or it runs something at startup visible in msconfig) then something's running in the background eating resources... so you may want to disable any startup/background features or uninstall the program.

For example, I used the free version of adaware on my last computer and if you weren't running it, it wasn't doing anything or running anything in the background... so I don't see any real harm in keeping that lying around.