I’ve used TurboTax for several years, but I won’t be using it again because of this reprehensible practice:
…the latest release of TurboTax comes with Macrovisions’s obnoxious C-Dilla malware. C-Dilla prevents you from copying the CD by disabling your CD-RW drive. That means it’s monitoring your CD writing activities all the time. As if you needed more processes running on your machine. Early reports from some users indicate that C-Dilla has caused interference with other software and that it is inordinately difficult to get rid of, perhaps requiring a low-level hard disk format.
The award-winning TaxCut is a perfectly acceptable alternative.
Thanks to Doug’s Dynamic Drivel for the heads-up.
There is an update to this Richard – it appears that Intuit is at least getting part of the message 🙂 Apparantly they have released a patch for TurboTax that allows for a complete uninstall.
I am severely disappointed in Intuit. I have used Quicken since version 3 and just upgraded to Quicken 2002 Deluxe a few months ago. Since that upgrade I can no longer download my Mutual Fund prices from the Quicken website as I was able to with Quicken 2000 Deluxe. I don’t know if it is different in the US version but in the Canadian version they only have about 5 or 6 institutions listed for online access and some of the largest are not on the list – it is useless to me. I am unwilling to pay these jerks $20 for a call to tech support to see if there is still a way to do it – only to find out there isn’t – because it sure isn’t obvious from their help files. I will be looking into MS Money in the future I guess.