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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:26:53 +0100
From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: vmware and turbotax
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:04:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Yeah mine ran the last few years as well,
> just not the new one..
> 
> stops immediatly with some error (I forget.. something descriptive like:

I don't know the program, but do you need a license or an activator for
it? (My question is: is it copy protection or something else?)
It could check for some things; cpuid, mac address, that sort of stuff.

What was that windows debugger called? WinIce or something like that?
You could give it a try to run it in there to find out what it is doing.

Mark

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