Subj : Windows Update
To   : BOB BAINBRIDGE
From : DAVID NORTON
Date : Mon Mar 03 2003 10:58 pm

On 19:35, BOB BAINBRIDGE said:

BB>I'm sticking with Win2000 Pro. Intuit has jumped on that bandswagon
BB>with Turbotax this year.I may switch to Tax Cut next year after being
BB>a loyal purchaser since 1989.

TurboTax also installs C'Dilla, a spyware program that does many 
interesting things....

SpyBot Search and Destroy will remove C'Dilla and then TurboTax won't 
run.

I uninstalled TurboTax, used their removal program from their website to 
remove C'Dilla and found it didn't remove it all, it still sat there and 
I had to weed it out of the registry key by key!

I returned TurboTax to Staples.  The manager reminded me they wouldn't 
take opened software back, I showed him a copy of the EULA which I'd had 
the foresight to print out which said "if you don't agree with this 
EULA, return the software to the store for a full refund" or words to 
that effect.  I also pointed out that EVERY EULA had the same language 
and it was necessary to open the box and install the software before you 
could read the EULA!  I said that the statement in the EULA pretty much 
guaranteed Intuit would cover the cost to Staples and he did give me a 
refund!

So I bought TaxCut and a few other things because I appreciated his 
taking back the TurboTax.

I also wrote a very nasty email to Intuit informing them I was a 
customer for many years (since about 1983?) but I now had MS Money and 
TaxCut and would not return to Intuit, their putting a really rotten bit 
of notorious spyware on my computer w/o telling me in advance was 
absolutely unacceptable!

So now the point of all this: I like TaxCut!  I thought maybe I would 
prefer TurboTax but TaxCut may even be easier to use!  It imported my 
Quicken files with no problems at all and I think I'm gonna like it at 
least as well as TT, maybe better!

David R. Norton 
<d_norton@cox.net> or
<d_norton@netzero.net>

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