{"id":2711,"date":"2003-01-10T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/01\/bye-bye-turbotax\/"},"modified":"2003-01-10T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2003-01-10T20:01:46","slug":"bye-bye-turbotax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/bye-bye-turbotax\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye TurboTax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;ve used TurboTax for several years, but I won&#8217;t be using it again because of <a title=\"TurboTax Customers Strike a Blow Against Intuit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/article2\/0,3973,821479,00.asp\">this reprehensible practice:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;the latest release of TurboTax comes with Macrovisions&#8217;s obnoxious C-Dilla malware. C-Dilla prevents you from copying the CD by disabling your CD-RW drive. That means it&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,4149,808675,00.asp\">award-winning TaxCut<\/a> is a perfectly acceptable alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thealders.net\/blogs\/\">Doug&#8217;s Dynamic Drivel<\/a> for the heads-up.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used TurboTax for several years, but I won&#8217;t be using it again because of this reprehensible practice: &#8230;the latest release of TurboTax comes with Macrovisions&#8217;s obnoxious C-Dilla malware. C-Dilla prevents you from copying the CD by disabling your CD-RW drive. That means it&#8217;s monitoring your CD writing activities all the time. As if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/bye-bye-turbotax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bye-bye TurboTax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-HJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}