Thanks Gary.
Followed the related thread below and was once again impressed with
yet another success story. Looks like SherryB has got that monster up
and running again.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
I don't recommend the Immunize function because I don't trust it.
Also
because it's damned difficult to undo. It bit me once, and that's
the
only chance it gets. I use Spyware Blaster, instead.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Dapper Dan" wrote in message
...
SherryB
With regards to anti-virus utilities, most in these Newsgroups
would
recommend either :
Avast http://www.avast. com
AVG http://www.grisoft.com
While both of the above are free, I prefer Avast because it also
provides customer service for the free version. If you want to pay
for
a product, then I believe eTrust's EZ Armor may be one of the best
out
there.I think it may still be available free for one year until
January 31, after which I think the annual subscription is
$25-$30.

Over and above AVAST, I run AdAware and Spybot S&D and while I
note
that Gary has recommended against it, I do in fact use the
IMMUNIZE
option and have had no known trouble doing so over the last year
or
so. I would be curious as to the reason for not using it.



"SherryB" wrote in message
...
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 syste
m
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. :-(