@Maybelle_S - Holy **** - In the big picture, connecting to the Internet does not protect our data and account!!! Instead it is a security hole that could ultimately become an avenue for hackers to access our data or install back doors. The Desktop program when one does not run Payroll has zero need to access the Internet, the source of all manner of computer problems. If Solarwinds, a major software company selling expensive data center software that includes security software, can be hacked and users of the software compromised simply by running an update- can Intuit fully and honestly guarantee that our connecting to it will never cause issues or breach our privacy? Of course it cannot - no business can. And so we buy Desktop software and do not connect it to the Internet unnecessarily. Some of us may choose to not install any further updates if the software is working well for our needs, until years in the future when some hardware change or operating system change causes the software to no longer work. That is a level of security that Intuit is no longer offering. Make logging into Intuit an option for Administrators to set - if they feel it will help secure their data, great - let them force a login - maybe they have concerns about internal bad actors, more than external bad actors. But for those of us who likely are the only ones accessing our QB installation, it is the external bad actors we care about, so do not force us to open the door to them - instead make it an optional setting for Administrators to set. If you give this idea the common sense test, you will admit that it is the right way to go. Thank you.
