Locked out of my control panel

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I've tried running many different spybot erasing and registry maintence programs but I still can't figure out what is happening to my computer. About a month ago an attack was made that shut me out of my control panel on windows 98. I was able to get back into the control panel but now I can't use any of the features in it, if I click on anything it tells me that access is denied to that path or file. I imagine that my system settings were overridden by someone, is it possible to restore them to how they were?

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Do you use a firewall? Kerio Personal Firewall can block acess to components like that if configured properly/unproperly...

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Try going to Start, Run, type in SFC. Make sure you have your win98 CD handy. System File Checker should repair any damage to windows files that may have become corrupt.
Good luck.