On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > David Curry wrote: > > STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: > > > >>> Of course. And Turbo Tax for the Web (and all of the other companies) > >>> also > >>> use https. I guess the question is: a secure protocol _to what_? > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx > >> > >> Back to the original quesiton, have people tried running > >> Turbo Tax under wine? I was going to try it out just for > >> grins, but have not gotten to it yet. > >> > >> Robert Styma > >> > >> > >> > > A week or so ago while researching the possibility of using Wine to run > > TurboTax in FC2 I ran across a couple of messages reporting that this > > year or last TurboTax software started making changes to the masterboot > > record when run in Wine. As a relative linux neophyte, that was enough > > of a cautionary note to dissuade me from trying it. I also did not find > > any clear declaration that people were actually succeeding in running > > TurboTax under Wine. > > > > why in the world would the TurboTax app be making any sort of writes, > let along changes of any kind to the disk's MBR? Two words: Copy Protection The copy protection they started using, from macrovision I believe, wrote information to the MBR the first time it was installed and would only let you re-install it later if it found the signature. So a year later if you tried to install to reprint your forms after upgrading your hard drive you were out of luck. Thats why I switched to TaxCut ... no copy protection at all. Paul
