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From: pfaff@atlantis.asd.contel.com (Ray Pfaff - Oakwood 457 934-8162)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: De-protecting Emerald Mines
Message-ID: <16906@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 89 16:20:50 GMT
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>I bought Emerald Mine I about six months ago and it has never crashed.  Howeve
>the owner of the store I purchased it from VirusXed it because it came in with
>a virus.  I wonder if that's your problem.
 As I hear the rumor, one of the batches of disks that was sent out had the byte
bandit virus on it.  I wasn't bitten because I VirusX everything (it's pretty
sad that you can't even trust commercial software to be clean of viruses).  The
store I bought my version from said that the company recalled the program for
a time due to "errors on the boot track".