Mate phoned me up saying his PC had a virus on it, and would I check it out- sure enough it did- this one Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c It's a little bar-steward to shift, but I think I've managed it - I followed some instructions to run a custom built remover file to shift it in safe mode, then did a full Ad Aware scan-found tons of stuff, much of it critical-all of which I canned Trouble is, now, when I boot normally, when I click on 'anything' the system hangs-mouse still moves, but that's all -do a ctrl/alt/del and it say explorer.exe is not not responding. Anyone got any ideas what might be causing this? Many thanks

If you have his win98 installation CD, I would suggest an 'install on top'. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

yes reinstalling win98 over the top now seems your best bet, you wont lose ant data or setting but it will reload basic windows files. however you might want to download hijackthis.exe and run it in safe mode it is a most effective way of checking just what is running on your pc and can remove spyware very easily Greetings from England! I have exactly the same problem.Shows CD Roms in bios but not in device manager.Did you resolve it? Did the new battery do anything? I have followed all suggestions from r

Install over the top from DOS (using a startup or bootdisk floppy if necessary). Some folk try it from Windows but it is usually messy because Windows stops the install overwriting files that are in use. DerekW

Hia well you could do an over the top install but your best bet would be to do a full format and then put win98 back on dont forget to back up things you will need like docs and images ect "Kernrel Panic"

One approach is to try installing over the top from true DOS first (which saves you getting all your drivers and backing up your own stuff). This only takes about 45 mins, which isn't too much time to risk wasting. It usually goes quite well. If it doesn't work out to your liking then you can always do the full format re-install which is squeeky clean. Reformat will ensure that if there is any virus still there it will get shot of it. Over the top install will not necessarilly remove viruses. DerekW