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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:Heh, silly me. by mosch · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Yes, silly you. Why would you want to run the PC version of software on Mac via VirtualPC or Bochs when you could just run the native mac version?

    Honestly, what is it with slashdot, square pegs and round holes?

  2. Re:How Appropriate by khuber · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Actually, Virii is correct. Any latin-derived word of this form in English can be pluralised by appending a second 'i'.

    The OED disagrees with you. Viruses is the plural.

    -Kevin

  3. Re:I just bought that yesterday! by RyLaN · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you forgot

    15) Profit!!

    --
    At least the war on the environment is going well
  4. Re:I just bought that yesterday! by mugnyte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sounds like business plan!

    1: Buy TurboTax
    2: Build legal case of boot sector manipulation
    3: ?
    4: Profit!