It is not an essential W98 file. I suggest you go to the web site of
the maker of your AV program and get cleaning instructions for the virus
your PC had.

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> Norton Antivirus discovered a virus and quarantined the
> file winset.exe. When Windows 98 loads, I receive a
> message that the file winset.exe is not found. I don't
> have the Windows 98 operating system CD. How can I get a
> new copy of the winset.exe file? Thanks