If you read the posts in the discussion, you’ll see that many come from longtime TurboTax users who have vowed not to purchase Intuit products again until the spyware and activation are removed.Īnger at Intuit wasn’t just apparent in the ET and PCMag forums. Intuit has sown the seeds of a mass migration from its tax software to competitors such as TaxCut (see PC Magazine’s review of TaxCut). We published a heads-up about this recently ( TurboTax Customers Upset By DRM ) and the response from TurboTax customers was overwhelmingly angry and negative in the discussion in the ET forum. And to make things even dicier, Intuit apparently did not overtly inform purchasers of the new TurboTax that C-Dilla was included and would be installed on their systems. 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. As if you needed more processes running on your machine. That means it’s monitoring your CD writing activities all the time. C-Dilla prevents you from copying the CD by disabling your CD-RW drive. And, as an extra bonus, the latest release of TurboTax comes with Macrovisions’s obnoxious C-Dilla malware. Well wonder no more product activation has now made its way into one of the most popular software programs ever created, TurboTax. Others were uneasy and wondered whether product activation in Microsoft’s products was a grim harbinger of things to come in the software industry.

Many Windows users were angry and felt betrayed by Microsoft. When Microsoft released Office XP and Windows XP with product activation embedded in both products, consumers and pundits alike responded with a gigantic hue and cry. (Agree with me? Tell me what you think in our discussion forum.) Wrongheaded, mistrustful, overcontrolling giants. Intuit is following in the footsteps of giants.

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