C_Dilla folder?

[Jeff]

In my Toshiba laptop running XP Home SP1, I find a folder named c:\C_DILLA,
recent date, containing a folder named setup which contains files that seem
to belong to Macrovision. I have no idea where this came from. Any ideas?
Can I delete this folder?

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[Malke]

In my Toshiba laptop running XP Home SP1, I find a folder named
c:\C_DILLA, recent date, containing a folder named setup which
contains files that seem
to belong to Macrovision. I have no idea where this came from. Any
ideas? Can I delete this folder?

This is usually associated with TurboTax, Quicken, or QuickBooks. If you
use any of these programs, don't delete the folder.

Malke

 

[Jeff]

Thanks.
What does it do?

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[Jeff]

My Google search suggest it is a kind of tracking software, and yet even
though I run both Ad-Aware and Spybot - with updates - neither one picked it
up. Strange.

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[Dick Kistler]

My Google search suggest it is a kind of tracking software, and yet even
though I run both Ad-Aware and Spybot - with updates - neither one picked
it
up. Strange.

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[Guest]

It is a licensing program used by software programers to
limit use of their software. More info:
http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/readingroom/cdilla.asp

 

[Dick Kistler]

My Google search suggest it is a kind of tracking software, and yet even
though I run both Ad-Aware and Spybot - with updates - neither one picked
it
up. Strange.

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It's just more copy protection with some bad features(at least for users).

Look here: http://www.privacyandspying.com/privacy-c_dilla.html

Dick Kistler

 

[Jeff]

Is there a way to find out which !#*#!! software installed it on my system?
I would like to uninstall them and then uninstall C-Dilla itself which I
found has its own uninstall in add/remove apps.

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[Formerprof]

It was probably Turbo Tax for 2001 or 2002; there was an uproar about it,
not only for the unannounced installation of C-Dilla but also because it
wrote some code into an unused sector of the hard disk (I think the
sixteenth) which lies between the MBR and the boot sector. Intuit removed
it from the followiing year's Turbo Tax -- but in order to clear the code
written into that sector one had to use some kind of disk hex-writing
utility. I abandoned Turbo Tax because of Intuit's behavior.

Bob

 

[Fred]

That's basically true as I recall except for one more thing. Intuit has a
utility/patch/repair that removes the offending folder and the code written to
the boot sector of your HDD.

Fred

 

[Jeff]

Thank you all.

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[Shelly F]

See:
http://support.turbotax.com/turbotax/ecs/knowledgebase/kb.html?document_id=0050001347
Use Safecast Remover

It was probably Turbo Tax for 2001 or 2002; there was an uproar about it,
not only for the unannounced installation of C-Dilla but also because it
wrote some code into an unused sector of the hard disk (I think the
sixteenth) which lies between the MBR and the boot sector. Intuit removed
it from the followiing year's Turbo Tax -- but in order to clear the code
written into that sector one had to use some kind of disk hex-writing
utility. I abandoned Turbo Tax because of Intuit's behavior.

Bob

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