Validate (McAfee)

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The Validate program by McAfee Associates is used to provide checksum data for computer programs and data files.

It is commonly used to verify that shareware applications written for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows based platforms have not been altered during distribution, (as would be the case if somehow the files had become infected with a computer virus).

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