AlexV,

Well you are the first person to finally explain WHY I get the Intuit popup even though I don't use any connected services - I always login as admin because I am the company admin.  I don't use QuickBooks per se, I'm the IT manager and adding users, updating files, creating new files, etc. are my responsibility.  Actually, linking my QB Desktop files to the outside world is not an extra layer of security but that is neither here nor there.

Thank you very much for providing the additional explanation and answering my rant directly.  I appreciate that you understand mine and many others frustrations.  I will definitely send feedback.  At this point it can't hurt.

Honesty doesn't always solve the complaint but it goes a long way to soothe the savage customer.