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TurboTax Application writes to your hard disk boot sector!
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:54:22 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:43:52 -0500 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: TurboTax Application writes to your hard disk boot sector! (From an operational, security, and common-sense perspective, I can't believe that Intuit is doing this....even though I don't run Windows, I won't use their products again....rf) TurboTax: Sector 33 Naughtiness We Uncover Low-Level Monkey Business Finally, before we put a wrap on our review, we decided to investigate readers' allegations that SafeCast was performing risky, low-level operations on users' hard disks. (Such operations wouldn't have been picked up by InCtrl5's before-and-after inventories of the drive.) While most of the reports we received turned out to be bogus, we were able to verify that SafeCast manipulates at least one area of the disk that's "outside" the file system. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,881243,00.asp ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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