TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?!

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TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 16, 2003 @05:08AM 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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Happy by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Are we?
pirst fost! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

pirst fost! or slashdot bug (who can ever tell)
No way! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

No taxation without representation!
1. Re:No way! by Gonoff · 2003-02-16 05:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  No representation without taxation!
  
  You don't pay the man, you don't get to complain...
  
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2. Re:No way! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  God, I'd love to have hot S&M sex with her. She could tie me up and whip my white ass until it was all read. Then she'd ream my ass with a strap-on dildo and make me lick her all night long.
IN SOVIET CANADA by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Your boot sector writes to turbotax, eh!
1. Re:IN SOVIET CANADA by KMAPSRULE · 2003-02-16 05:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  isn't it aaay not "eh"
  
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2. Re:IN SOVIET CANADA by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Only if the Fonz happens to be in Canada.
3. Re:IN SOVIET CANADA by LinuxCumShot · 2003-02-16 05:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  it is spelt "eh" and pronounced "Ay"
  
  plus canadians are soviets, just soft core commies.
  
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4. Re:IN SOVIET CANADA by jdogg1988 · 2003-02-16 11:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  actually, canada is more like a socialist democracy.
  
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5. Re:IN SOVIET CANADA by saskboy · 2003-02-16 16:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Actually, you are all wrong. In Canada, most people use QUICK Tax. So the boot sector writes to Intuit QUICK Tax, eh?
  
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wagabooga h !!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Ich bin ein klein libellllullllll00e
what? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bootloaders?
Re:How Appropriate by orkysoft · 2003-02-16 05:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is virii the multiple of virius?

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IN SOVIET RUSSIA ... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

boot sector writes to YOU!
Re:How Appropriate by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 05:40 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Spelling nazis, not nazii.

Seriously, how the fuck did this get +3 informative. Sheesh.
Re:How Appropriate by TheRaven64 · 2003-02-16 05:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Actually, Virii is correct. Any latin-derived word of this form in English can be pluralised by appending a second 'i'. This is not the case in America, since early Americans tried to make English more logical and gave up half way resulting in an even more illogical language. Please don't try and force your own variant of English on the rest of us. How would you like it if you wrote a fragment of bash script in a post and I 'corrected' it to make it MS-DOS batch file syntax?

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Re:I just bought that yesterday! by zogger · 2003-02-16 05:57 · 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.
In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 07:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

tax forms prepare YOU!
Re:Tax preparation for Macintosh by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-16 08:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Come on, because the word MAC was used...
All you need to do to get good karma here is mention MAC or Apple in anything but a bad way and WHAM!, instant + moderation. Does not matter if the subject topic has NOTHING to do with Macs or even computers. You could be in a thread about double twist basket weaving and some clown posts that the Mac's processor uses less power then a coffee warmer and it is instantly +5 interesting.
soviet shut up by REDNOROCK · 2003-02-16 14:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In soviet russia, thats not funny any more.

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Re:Well, if they're writing... by Ricdude · 2003-02-17 08:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Damn, you beat me by 18. =)

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