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cyberSAR wrote:

JC Zorkoff wrote:

How do you block Quicken from phoning home?

I want to do the same.  Thanks for the help.

 

I installed 2015 offline about 6 days ago and blocked the following with no ill effects so far.
qw.exe, quickenPatch.exe, qwsubprocess.exe, qwPatchDownloader.exe, qwul.exe

Happy to be away from Quickbooks

cyberSAR, that’s really interesting.  Can you be a little more specific on how you blocked those various .exe files from running?

I ran into this problem a couple of years ago trying to install Quicken 2016.  (I think the problem arises with Quicken 2014 – 2017 – before that, it didn’t have the “call home” feature.) After much googling, and trial and error, I came across https://www.quicknperlwiz.com/blanklogin2014-2017.html, which provided step-by-step instructions, which worked perfectly.  I can’t promise it will work for others, but it did for me.  It was a pain, though.

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JC Zorkoff

Thanks, Peabody.  Yes, Gmails “app password” gets around the OAuth – but only at the cost of security, which is what Susan Bradley’s original column was about.

I very much appreciate all the responses to my original post, but no-one has explained how one might keep using Outlook while getting the security benefits of OAuth.  Susan hinted that it’s possible in her column (“more difficult” and “may require…a third-party tool”) but I’m still not sure exactly how it would be done.

Thanks, Drcard.  I think I can change to IMAP from POP without a major problem but, as noted in my response to Susan, it seems that the authentication for IMAP is no different from the POP authentication, so it doesn’t seem to solve the problem.  Maybe I’m just showing my ignorance of the topic?

Susan,

I actually have 3 email providers:  Comcast (which definitely doesn’t require anything special password-wise), a personal domain with email hosted by Zoho (which requires an app-specific password for either IMAP or POP in Outlook if one has turned on 2-factor authentication), and a Gmail account.

Should I be regarding the Comcast and Zoho emails as unsecure – and, if so, what is the easiest solution?  It doesn’t just seem to be a matter of changing from POP to IMAP – it seems something more fundamental has to be done to work around Outlook’s apparent limitation to only basic authentication.

Been having exactly the same problem:  Win10 v. 1909.  Outlook 365 v. 2007.  ISP is Comcast (so presumably ISP is not the cause?).  Started happening a few weeks ago – makes me wonder if that v. 2007 of Outlook is the culprit?

I’m wondering if it’s worth trying to roll back to a prior version of Microsoft Office.  I’ve never tried that, and from googling, it appears that in theory you can do it, though people seem to have lots of difficulty in the process?