[Wine]Installation issue?

Walt Ogburn reuben at ugcs.caltech.edu
Fri Feb 25 19:30:24 CST 2005


> >>
> >> BUT; what about that scam^h^h^h^hscheme that TT was using a couple years
> >> ago where their copy-protection system was writing to your drive's boot
> >> sector? I wouldn't trust it on a system where it wasn't isolated onto a
> >> virtual disk image file (like a VMware or Qemu image).
> >>
> Several people have reported to me that Intuit dropped their earlier
> intellectual property protection scheme last year.  And, I have
> installed TurboTax on my system using Setup.exe on the CD.   The system
> has been rebooted since without any difficulties.
>

I would be really amazed if a program running under Wine as a normal user
could actually do anything to the boot sector!  That could keep it from
working, though.

- Walter



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