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Re: Viruses in IBM downloads




Take a look at http://www.us.pc.ibm.com/files.html 

There is a box at the top of the screen that talks about this..


> > 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 
>