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I have always thought that Spybot was a scanning program only. But I've read several threads here that lead me to believe that it is memory resident and active all the time. Which is it? I also run Spyware Blaster and have not ever had a spyware problem.
I also read in an older post about disabling immunization for Firefox due to the fact that Spybot writes undesirable files (punycode?) into the Firefox directory. Since I use Firefox 99.99% of the time, do I even need Spybot? It seems to provide protection mostly for IE.
Thanks,
Ralph
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Spybot does run resident in your browser. TeaTimer is a Registry protector - it doesn't allow anything to get written to the registry without your permission.
I don't know about firefox since I don't use it.
If you start Spywareblaster, it will tell you what protections you have.
