Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site celerity.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!celerity!sdo From: sdo@celerity.UUCP (Steve Oualline) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Microsoft Access trashes disk Message-ID: <356@celerity.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 14:35:05 EDT Article-I.D.: celerity.356 Posted: Wed Oct 2 14:35:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 14:50:50 EDT References: <53400078@trsvax> Reply-To: sdo@celerity.UUCP (Steve Oualline) Organization: Celerity Computing, San Diego, Ca. Lines: 53 In article <53400078@trsvax> gm@trsvax writes: > > What do you do when your program summarily announces that it is "Trashing >Program Disk"? It happened to us while we were reviewing Microsoft Access--a >new telecommunication program. We had diligently performed the hard-disk >installation and had successfully run the program a dozen or more times. >Suddenly we were assaulted with an error message that struck fear into our >hearts: > > Internal Security Violation > The tree of evil bears bitter fruit > Crime does not pay > The Shadow knows > > And finally the punchline: "Trashing Program Disk." If this happened to me I would write the following letter to Microsoft: Dear Microsoft, I was running a legal copy of Microsfot Access when it displayed the message "Trashing Program Disk". The program disk I was using was my 40 meg hard disk. I examined the disk and it looked like all my programs and data were intact. However I could not be sure that your program did not trash any of the program or data files by modifing them is a subtle way. I had to re-install all the programs that were on my hard disk to insure that they were ok. I also had to examine all my data files to make sure that your program did not trash them. This process took 5 hours of my time. Your neglience in allowing such a program to exist and the malicious error message that resulted cost me 5 hours of time. My time is worth $25.00 an hour, so you owe me $125.00. If I do not receive a check within two weeks I will turn this matter over to the courts. Sincerely Joe User --------------------------------- If they did not respond within 2 weeks, I would file suit in small claims court. Software manufactures should never install malicious copy protection in their software. We as users must take strong action against this type of programming.