Spybot Search and Destroy Tea Timer display work around

In my last post I mentioned display problems in Spybot's real time spyware detection module, AKA Tea Timer. I found a work around on the Spybot forums, here. To make it easier for people to fix the problem, an industrious fellow named Murdo has created a patch (a small program to change the Tea Timer executable).

Instructions to apply the fix:

1) Download the patch here

2) Open the Zip File

3) Extract/Copy the contents to your SpyBot S&D folder (normally C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy)

4) Close "Spybot-SD Resident" from your system tray (bottom right hand corner of screen) as follows:

Click your right mouse button on the system tray icon and choose "Exit Spybot S&D Resident"

5) Execute "S&D14 GUI PATCH.exe" from within your SpyBot folder

Press the "Start" button

Note: Remember to start "TeaTimer.exe" again!

That's it! The next time there is a notification by the tea timer, it will now look something like this:



The wonderful people at Team Spybot say that this issue will be fixed in the next release. In the mean time, many thanks to Murdo for his time, effort and bandwidth in making the patch available - also to ElPiedra for the original instructions.