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re: Practicing Safe Computing
TeaTimer is a real-time (also known as in-resident, in-memory, active scanning, et al) monitoring tool and so in keeping with the general concept of Important Note 3 above, to minimize conflicts caused by 2 or more like programs keeping watch over the same files or resources, I recommend using only one real-time monitoring tool of each category (AS, AV, FW, etc) at the same time. I also note there have been more than just a couple reports of TeaTimer causing system lockups, excessive CPU utilization, and other problems/conflicts. Since the other anti-spyware tools are also effective at removing such threats and monitoring the same critical systems, if nothing else, freeing system resources (RAM and CPU cycles) can be achieved without sacrificing security by not running TeaTimer.
Certainly, if you are not experiencing such problems, and do not find the frequent pop-ups overly annoying, then I see no harm from using it. However, I would still recommend disabling it when doing manual scans with other scanning tools.
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