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Article #315Re: TurboTax activation policy
From: Hank Arnold
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:35
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:35
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Oooooooooh!! What a fucking schock!! Imagine, TT's been out for months and none of us have heard of this!! How dare they??? Thanks for letting us know!!!!!!!! -- Regards, Hank Arnold "Jim Anderson" <sp2and@vision.net> wrote in message news:v4vinm1a7cke2f@corp.supernews.com... > (from electronics) TurboTax used to be great, but the 2002 version invades > your hard drive with a system called C-Dilla to facilitate their new > activation process that, not only hides itself in places on your hard drive > where it cannot be easily erased, hidden in unpartitioned space after the > boot record, but it installs three new drivers into Device Manager with > associated processes that constantly run in the background, even when you're > not running TurboTax, and that don't even go away when you uninstall > TurboTax! They've just now come out with an uninstaller that removes most of > the remnant files, but it still hasn't fixed problems for many people. > I have no problem with product activation. A company has the right to > protect its hard work creating a product by preventing people from passing > it around without paying, but to do so by using background processes and > hidden drivers that continue to bog down your system even after you > uninstall the program (and even when you run their new C-dilla uninstaller, > after which the three drivers STILL remain in Device Manager) is offensive. > > Bottom line, get TaxCut or taxact instead. Your computer will thank you. > > > > >
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