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Old January 27th 05, 10:43 PM
SherryB
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Default How to safely clean up a sick Win98 machine?

I'm the one with the "SpyBot killed my computer" thread going on. Assuming I
get things back to normal again (big assumption right now =:-O), then what?
This computer has not had virus protection for about 6 months on cablemodem,
and although it has SpyBotS&D and AdAware's latest versions installed on it,
they appear to never have been ran. How can I back up the system state in 98
so that I can avoid such a huge crash when removal tools don't work? Should
I run SpyBot again on it? Or switch to AdAware? Should I run another
antivirus scanner on it first? I also have AVG free edition, should I
install that on there first and scan? Do you guys know of a better way?
I've never had so much trouble cleaning a machine, but I guess I've never
seen one so badly infected. :-(