Eddy
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Thirst of all, you made a wise decission getting and using Avast. Although it is free, it truly is one of the best av software around.
But let me try to help you solve your problem. if it was Avast who removed those files, they really where infected and beyond repair. So that is good, because you don’t want a infected system.
How to solve the problems you have now?
Three ways are possible in my opinion.
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start, run, sfc replace ALL changed files and reboot. (if you still can do this) You need the windows 98 cd.
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Do a repair of windows 98. Boot from a windows98 bootfloppy, if you don’t have one get it from www.bootdisk.com. Choose the option to start/boot with cdrom support. After booting you are getting a command prompt. Put in the windows 98 cd and run setup.exe from it. When the setup asks you where to install, set it to install in the same directory windows is currently in which normally is c:\windows. This will restore windows without you loosing data. You may need to reinstall some drivers after the (re)installation is finished, but that is all. Ofcourse it is advised to backup important data before doing this, just to be safe.
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if the previous things I mentioned don’t work. Backup and do a clean installation of windows98
A little advise. After you have solved the problems. Make sure you have avast installed and that the on-access scanner is running. Also install a firewall (best way is router with build in one) but if you can’t afford one or don’t want one, www.zonelabs.com has a freeware software one.
Also visit http://windowsupdate.microsft.com to get all security updates/patches for you operating system