Have done as you said and installed the AVG software - it has detected the virus VBS/Redlof. It wants me to 'restart using an operating system from a virus free system diskette or CDRom then use Rescue Disk and heal'.
What in practice does this mean? (I've created the rescue disks as instructed when I first installed AVG)
I thought (from memory) the ACG recovery disk was bootable, did you try booting from it? If its not, your 98 cd will do just fine, put cd in, reboot pc with cd in and it should boot from cd - if not post back and I'll advise on how to change boot sequence. Once booted from cd you will get a menu with 3 items, you want to start computer either with or without cdrom support - doesnt matter in this case.
IF booted from avg floppy, type AVG and press and follow the instructions, if booted from a 98cd, pop in your avg floppy, type A: and press enter then type avg and press enter as above.
I dont think this visus will have affected your avg floppy.
Sorry folks but I'm pretty much a novice and the 'hijack this' installing guides kept warning me that I needed to be an advanced user. When I looked at the tutorial I lost the will to live.
ok Hijack this is easy enough for you to run and get a log file, simply double click the downloaded file, if you get a message box, click ok. Then on the main Hijack-this screen, click the first big button - "do a scan and save log file", it will have a think for a bit then come up with a list of all sorts of stuff, it will also open notepad, copy the textf from notepad and post here, you can save it if you like also. Close notepad and close hijack this.
If you get stuck, post back.