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Article #362Re: PC Mag Tax Software Review
From: THenry
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:15
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:15
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:27:18 GMT, Criswell The Psychic Weatherman <ssenate@mindless.com> wrote: <<< Ummm - any chance you could trim your posts a bit? I removed about 600 lines here just to get to what you said. :-) >>> >Does SafeCast/C-Dilla show up on the Control Panel/Remove Programs dialog box? If not, >why not? If not, by itself this constitutes suspicious software behavior. Viruses, >spyware, and other potentially intrusive and malicious programs by design remain >invisible to the user. Why would SafeCast want to put itself in that category? These tools, almost by definition, must be SNEAKWARE, and try to hide what they do as much as possible. They go to great lengths to be hard to find and hard to get rid of. >I'd imagine that the >SafeCast/C-Dilla verification files once created on the hard drive could also be copied >to another computer in the same directory, and *ding* a full working copy. I'm sure TT >and SafeCast have thought of this, and that this wouldn't work, but has anyone tried >it, and what was the result? Any workarounds will cause great upset with them and will certainly be fixed - and - this fix is guaranteed to further inconvenience even more users. They will only be happy if NOBODY can hack their software, and this will mean maximum inconvenience to users. Their paranoia seems to far outweigh any concern for users being inconvenienced. >In keeping with the suspicious intent of SafeCast, I would think >they would be "hidden", "read-only" and/or "system" files. This is too easy. They are much more sophisticated than this.
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