[geeks] annoying Taxcut software bug

[Dan Duncan]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > Doesn't Turbo Tax have spyware in it?
> >
> Not as far as I know... they had a licensing snafu a while back for the
> Winders version, but then again I haven't used the Winders version
> since buying a mac back in 1998 or so.  The Mac version doesn't contain
> spyware.  Apparently the licensing snafu was fixed after they listened
> to backlash from their customers... something about putting copy
> protection into the program (activation).

It did last year, but apparently they removed the spyware this year:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/technology/2762716/detail.html


Hey, Amazon actually posted my review of Taxcut, testing monkey
references and all.  Cool!

-DanD

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