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I would suspect you had the virus on your system or floppies. There is very little chance you got it from IBM. Download the IBM 701 Win/95 upgrade stuff again. Put the files on totally clean floppies...run Norton on them if you want to feel comfortable. Then follow the instruction exactly!!!!!!! You do not do the bios upgrade from the "C" drive...but rather from a clean boot from the "A" drive. After you upgrade the bios to Ver 3O, you can then do the Win/95 upgrade. There is an excellent set of instructions included with the bios upgrade. The Win/95 installation will find all of your hardware just fine. The APM works excellent. If you have other hardware attached, like PCMCIA cards, SyQuest drive, mouse, monitor, etc., have everything hooked up when you do the upgrade. I found the best install is to reformat the hard drive, and do a fresh install. This heals a lot of sins and gives you the cleanest install with the least amount of space used. You may also want to consider formatting the hard drive into two partitions. But, the upgrade of Win/3.1 works fine. You can delete Win/95 if you don't like it. I would never go back to Win/3.1. Finally, a neat little trick when installing Win/95 on a reformatted drive with the upgrade version of Win/95 is you don't have to install Win/3.1...just start the install of Win/95, and when it asks for a previous version of Windows, stick disk #1 from Win/3.0 or 3.1 or 3.11 in the "A" drive, an "brows" to that drive...presto...it loads. Good Luck Bill ---------- > From: Robert Munzenrider <rfm@psu.edu> > To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu > Subject: Viruses in IBM downloads > Date: Wednesday, May 07, 1997 4:06 PM > > I have a TP701C that came with Win3.11 which I want to upgrade to Win95. > (I've been "Fixin" to" do this for 6 months now....) > > As a first step, I went out to the IBM site and downloaded the BIOS upgrade, > and some other upgrade files - four in all. Did that 6 weeks ago or so, > and they sat on my desktop system until now, when school is about finished > for the term. > > Yesterday, I decided to download these four files onto 3.5" diskies for > loading onto my TP701. But when I switched to the subdirectory where the > files have been stored, my Norton AntiVirus software went bananas! It > flagged all four TP701 upgrade files as having Viruses - Werewolf, I think > it was. At this point, rather than letting Norton repair the files, I > zapped all four files. > > I have two questions: > > 1) To whom at IBM should a warning be directed about viruses in those 701 > upgrade files? > > 2) Is there anywhere else I can download those files so I can go upgrade to > Win95 on my 701? > > Bob Munzenrider > Penn State Harrisburg