T-40 system restore with recovery CDs to rid myself of a virus

I have a T-40 (Type 2373-19U) and yes, it's ancient in computer terms, but my T-40 has served me well, survived several upgrades and up until now I have also avoided getting viruses. I back up regularly so I was thinking of doing a restore to factory settings to make sure the virus is kicked off my machine. Does anyone have experience working with the T-40 Recovery CDs? Do I just pop them into the machine and turn it on? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

greener37923, welcome to the forum,
if you still have the service partition intact you don't need the cds to return to factory settings; when you see the IBM BIOS splash screen press the F11 key and the system will load into the Rescue and recovery enviroment, you can then restore to factory from there.
If you do have to use the cds, as you said; just "pop them in" and go for it. You shouldn't have any problems.
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