Hi jjjdavidson,

The PE_C_ keys should be removed when Spybot terminates normally. However when my clients called me and their accounts were locked I ran some tests on my system. I found that for six program starts, the PE_C_ keys were not removed. Then on the seventh time the keys were deleted. I have yet to reproduce this problem again. It seems now my system is removing the keys everytime.

As for the PE_C keys still existing after a reboot, the answer is yes. This is what happened with two of my clients. When this happens a temporary profile is created when the user logs in. The first thing I had them try was a reboot. We had to manually unload the PE_C keys from the Administrator account using regedit. I have tried to reproduce this on my system but have been unsuccessful.