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Bought my first PC, an IBM 486DX-100. Preloaded Win95 display drivers were failing, so after a quick call to IBM I was instructed to download the newer drivers from the IBM Support BBS. After installing the drivers and a reboot, "Starting Windows95 For The First Time..." became my vision of terror. I remember watching the sliding bar on the bottom hoping that it wouldn't stop moving for too long.

The support tech I dealt with was super helpful but was confused by the mounting calls on the issue so after a few days he investigated and found that the BBS files were infected with the Monkey.3 MBR virus. The cool thing was that he called me directly and let me know the source of the problem and apologized on behalf of IBM.



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