will this make eb lag?

[caeser44]

i downloaded spybot search and destroy version 1.5.2.16 yesterday and read about it and it says that it uses a tool called a resident and a tea timer that permanetly monitors applications for spyware and i do not think that it can be turned off. It said that this uses 5 mb of memory all the time, and i have one gig. Will this make eb and my other games lag? I will paste what i read:


The Resident TeaTimer is a tool of Spybot-S&D which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated. It immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future: You can set TeaTimer to:

be informed when the process tries to start again
automatically kill the process
or generally allow the process to run
There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.

In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either Allow or Deny the change. As TeaTimer is always running in the background, it takes some resources of about 5 MB.

[mcantu]

TeaTimer can be deactivated...

[Tellos Athenaios]

'Sides: of 5Mb/1Gb => 0.5% less memory to spend on EB?

Isn't going to make much of a difference in that respect. If anything I'd be rather more curious to the CPU demands your TeaTimer makes.

Myself, I have a couple of background processes running (anti virus; messenger some OpenOffice thing, updaters; as well as SVN (which requires a good amount of cache) ....), on 2Gb of memory and a relatively cheap AMD dual core processor. Still, EB only lags in very, very large battles after an hour or more of continuous playing/running EB. :shrug:

[caeser44]

i have an nvidia geforce 7800, a pentium4 3.4ghz processor, and 1 gig of ram, so will it lag because of that? And where can tea timer and resident be deactivated at, because everytime i dial up to my msn service provider, resident is wanting to know if i want to deny or accept a change in my registry, so could spyware be doing that? Thank you for any help.