TurboTax - Linux?

[Mark Weaver]

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 at mattdm.org       
>>
>>   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?

-- 
Mark
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