You guys are freakin great. I have been reading other posts that are similar to my headache: Got hit with the Antispy 2009 on a Vista set. only thing that happened that day was Win Update!!?? MBAM blocked. Superantispyware blocked. HJT blocked. Rootrepeal crashes. After 3 tries, a Restore worked. But then MBAM launched, then quit. So, I am now scanning the HDD in an XP set that has just been scanned clean and updated fully. It is finding some stuff. Crypt GBE for one. Here is the BIG question: By scanning this way, I can remove and heal the files that were downloaded; but not /clean' the registry. So, will the Vista set reinfect when I move the HDD back to boot on it. OR, will the reg entries pointing to the formerly bad files just be ignored? If this works, it will be a good scheme for cleaning. thanx