Text File Corruption

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From: Anubis
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1991 22:45

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Hi...

I own an Amiga 3000, 25mhz, 40 meg hard drive, 1 internal drive, 1 external
drive, modem, printer.  

Every once in a while I will find that a text file gets corrupted.  It
appears to have binary garbage dumped in it.

I run VirusX 4.01 and StarBlanker all the time.

This only seems to happen to files that have been written to.  It has happened
mostly with files altered by ED.

What could be causing this?  A new virus?  Anyone else have these symptoms?

This doesn't happen very often. Just once in a while.  It IS annoying however.
Could my Harddrive have a bad spot on it?  How can I test this?


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Subject: Text File Corruption
Summary: What is causing this?
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