Craig Markham
Well-known member
I purchased NIK software's plug-in tools for Photoshop years ago and they have been an important part of my CS6 workflow ever since (I'm no fan of Adobe's CC (Creative Cloud, aka Credit Card) junk, so I've stayed with my CS6 - the last stand-alone version of Photoshop). However Google snapped up NIK and left the software unchanged for years. Which was fine with me. However, Google has sold its NIK holdings to the French company, DxO. DxO has now cashed in by adding "improvements", then hijacking users' existing NIK software with a push upgrade. They've overwritten my old version of NIK without my permission and rendered it inoperable unless I pay them $99 for the unwanted "upgrade". Has anyone else here suffered this ransomware attack? Seems like a good case for a class-action suit.