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TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-that-ain't-cool dept.

ltwally writes "As reported on Slashdot (amongst other sites) recently, the latest version of TurboTax is laden with DRM software. Even worse, however, is that it apparently writes to your hard drive's boot-sector , as reported at Extreme Tech here. As I'm sure most Slashdotters already know, the boot-sector is often times used for silly things like boot-loaders and such. "

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  1. Re:How Appropriate by orkysoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is virii the multiple of virius?

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  2. Re:How Appropriate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Spelling nazis, not nazii.

    Seriously, how the fuck did this get +3 informative. Sheesh.

  3. Re:I just bought that yesterday! by zogger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "WTF as we as consumers supposed to do about this crap? "

    umm, just a thought but you honestly don't really need "tax software" to do your taxes. Honest, really, not pulling your leg or trolling or nuthin. It's like having one of those remote controls that changes the channel on the tv, washes the car, walks the dog, adjusts the blinds and scrubs your back, ya, once in awhile they might work, but setting them up and tweaking them and putting up with all that hassle just isn't worth it. Better to just use the boring stock remote for the tv, use the string pull on the blinds, walk the dog yourself and pay the neighbor kid to wash the car, and swap back scrubbing with your lover. Sometimes the solutions to problems are staring ya in the face.

  4. Re:Well, if they're writing... by Ricdude · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn, you beat me by 18. =)

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