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Upon a user's choice, it would share jokes and facts, manage downloads, sing songs, and talk, among other functions, as it used Microsoft Agent.īonziBuddy was described as spyware and adware, and discontinued in 2004 after the company behind it faced lawsuits regarding the software and was ordered to pay fines. iː/ BON-zee-bud-ee, stylized as BonziBUDDY) was a freeware desktop virtual assistant created by Joe and Jay Bonzi. Quite honestly, unless some new angle is forthcoming on Spybot, I will have the greatest pleasure in dumping it as useless.Įdited by Beaker77, 30 July 2014 - 06:09 AM.Virtual Assistant, Adware, Spyware, MalwareīonziBuddy ( / ˈ b ɒ n z i b ʌ d. Spybot consistently nag for donations, but with such a restricted attitude on scanning for malware, I cannot see many donors around. It does not matter how many gates a property has where an intruder can gain access, the important issue is ensuring that the property has no uninvited guests. Why they concentrate on browsers I will never understand when all other malware programs simply scan the Memory, Registry and system files. It is looking fairly conclusive to me that Spybot is no use at all unless you use IE and Firefox. My Spybot is the free version 2.4.40.0 and shows start centre 2.4.40.130. Every one of your comments are always of enormous help. Additionally, TeaTimer may conflict with other security tools which do a much better job of protecting your computer and in some cases it will even prevent disinfection of malware by those tools. If you don't have understanding how a particular security tool works, then you probably should not be using it. The user must have an understanding of the registry and how TeaTimer works in order to make informed decisions to allow or deny the detected changes.

TeaTimer monitors changes to certain critical keys in Windows registry but does not indicate if the change is normal or a modification made by a malware infection.

Further, most people don't understand how to use Spybot's TeaTimer and that feature can cause more problems than it's worth. See here - (scroll down and read under Freeware Antispyware Products). Which version of Spybot are you using? Spybot 2 + AV (Home & Pro), Spybot 2 Free, Spybot S&DįYI: is no longer recommending Spybot S&D (or Ad-Aware) due to poor testing results.

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