I appreciate the help, thanks very much. However, I already have made most of the adjustments you suggested and the issue with SpySweeper alerting me to the perceived homepage hijack isn't that big a deal because I can tell it to always prevent whatever from changing the homepage. My primary concern here is that I suspect that this message is somehow related to SSD's inability to immunize properly. I say this because when I try to immunize, I get the message from SpySweeper and SSD freezes up. Since both issues started occurring at the same time, it leads me to believe they are related. Thanks again.