Agreed wholeheartedly. Quick call with the authorities this morning. This appears to be a clear violation of URC's implied contract to the purchaser. There is a letter on the 'net, from URC's legal representation in 2013, where point 5 states that "only URC's authorized dealers and distributors are permitted to download and *distribute* [...] CCP software." The term "clear cut" was used here.

Given the amount of $$ I had into this, I'm advised that I might seek a full refund in small claims court (as I suspected) while they look into it and consider more broad remedies.

Thanks for the link to YIO. I'll be backing it too. At this point, given the parallels to ransomware attacks, I no longer even trust CCP to be installed on my machines, and certainly no live updates with surprise 'payloads' from URC.