7 hours ago
(8 hours ago)n8chavez Wrote: What now is your complaint, sense that point is now moot?
1. The time bomb has been removed due to complaints and put back at least three times, so I remain skeptical. The current version has it active.
2. The activation is tied to hardware and will therefore "randomly" de-activate itself if you change hardware, software, OS version? Depends exactly how it is generated, what it is tied to, which is yet another "self destruct" mechanism. I've used many softwares with this scheme and they all seemingly randomly de-activated on me pretty regularly. My Alcohol 120 license would not stay active more than a few days, and they eventually made me a custom "activator.exe" to activate it permanently, offline because they could not even figure it out, which I still have to this day, some 20 years later. They basically gave me an official "crack" for it. Oh yeah, they added "Smart File Advisor" malware to it for quite a long while too (a time bomb would force us to get versions with such stuff added in the future). I never did figure out the cause of the de-activations.