Spybot memory resident?

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

 

I believe that the Tea Timer part of Spybot S&D is active in the background at all times. You could also add SuperAntiSpyware to your inventory.

 

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.

Mitch