Uninstalled the beta, reinstalled and immunized. Patterns dropped from 182,170 to 173,335 and Firefox immunizations from 193, 3*15042 to 193, 3*14961. Automatic update followed by manual update and immunization. No change to pattern number but Firefox immunizations returned to 193, 3*15042, which they have been for weeks.

The packages (except PosOS.sbs) match on Installed and Online date, whatever that means since the dates aren't recent. None match the Released date.

PosOS.sbs has an installed date of 7/28/11 and online date of 1/21/2009.

When I did the first few manual updates today, some packages were flagged red. When I got into the manual update again, the red flagging had disappeared and did not return when a manual update was tried again.

I don't know what all this means but it doesn't look good.

My corrupted registry earlier probably had nothing to do with Spybot S&D. Of course, I ran a thorough scan and a boot scan with Avast but found nothing. Same with Spybot S&D.