I did a system scan only. It said it found problems. I selected fix it now. What I need to know.... Since I ck'd everything that it detected and hit "fix it now", could have it messed up my registry? What had happened, is I believe I have a rootkit issue. So when I run the program to ck for rootkit, select files and scan, the system locks up. I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I did try it in safe mode, just to see if it'd work. When I do this, I'm at least able to move the mouse around, however, it just sits on "initializing, please wait". Maybe I did not wait long enough...dunno. So I lastly did a "restor" of PC to an earlier date, before all this trouble and tried again in normal windows mode, and locks up again. I'll wait for a response as to how to procede. If I "fixed" something that was removed permanantly, I guess maybe I screwed up. Thank you for the help. DM