- Validate (McAfee)
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 forMSDOS andMicrosoft Windows based platforms have not been altered during distribution, (as would be the case if somehow the files had become infected with acomputer virus ).References
See also
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PGV Pretty Good Validation
*md5sum
*shasum
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