H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?)

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Subject	H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?)
Date	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:13:55 -0500
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Got around to installing H&R Block's At Home 2010 (the application
formerly known as TaxCut) and found that it is still stupid, after
all these years.  Yep it still expects to be run from an account
with  administrator rights.  Trying to update from the standard
user account we do family finances from failed due to lack of
privileges.  Had to log in as Admin to update and install the
state software.

Doing day to day applications running in an administrator
account is something I've always viewed as a Stupid Windows
Trick.  I'm astonished that there are major applications such
as At Home (TaxCut) still aren't privilege aware and capable
of doing the necessary privilege escalation (prompt for admin
id & password.)  It is possible to switch out of the regular
user account, do the updates and come back, but why does an
app. that deals with such sensitive information encourage the
insecure behavior of running as an admin?

In years past, we've used Intuit's TurboTax.  It too wanted
to run as an administrator. Is that still case this year?
(1000 quatloos says yes.)

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H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) Rich Gray <devnull@nowhere.invalid> - 2011-03-11 19:13 -0500
  Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2011-03-11 16:28 -0800
  Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) BakersT <nomailpls@domain.invalid> - 2011-03-11 19:30 -0500
    Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) massello@newsguy.com (Neill Massello) - 2011-03-11 18:58 -0700
      Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) BakersT <nomailpls@domain.invalid> - 2011-03-12 00:24 -0500
        Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) massello@newsguy.com (Neill Massello) - 2011-03-12 05:10 -0700
          Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) BakersT <nomailpls@domain.invalid> - 2011-03-12 18:33 -0500
    Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-03-14 13:05 +0000
  Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2011-03-12 19:19 +0000
    Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-03-12 16:09 -0800
      Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2011-03-12 22:16 +0000
        Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-03-12 17:40 -0800
          Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2011-03-13 01:09 +0000
    Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2011-03-12 13:57 -0800
    Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) BreadWithSpam@fractious.net - 2011-03-13 12:25 -0400
      Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2011-03-15 05:30 +0000
    Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> - 2011-03-20 15:32 -0700
  Re: H&R Block At Home 2010 still wants to run in Admin account - (How's TurboTax this year?) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-03-14 13:05 +0000

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