[MagicJack anyone?]

So we broke down and bought a MagicJack the other day to try to save some money since things are tight. Ever since, I've been doing nothing but reading online about complaints and bad customer service and yadda yadda yadda (what do you want for 20 dollar/year service??). But on the same token, I've seen tons of great reviews for it. So far it seems to be alright, at least for us. Plus,I can finally use my nifty fax machine that I got for Christmas. lol

 

But what I'm wondering is this. People have claimed they got tons of spyware/adware/malware from it, though never providing what viruses, etc. they actually found on their PCs. So far my scans turn up nothing but my usual tracking cookies from various websites. So I think I'm alright. But, when you want to dial-out, you have to set MagicJack as a server otherwise your call won't complete. How safe can that really be? I mean, I do have a firewall and virus scans and whatnot, but the idea of making it a server keeps me a little uneasy. Could someone still, theoretically, tap in and get my bank info, credit info, etc?

 

Any takers on this? Anyone else ever use one and have problems or anything? Just curious...

I have been using MJ for a year and have had no problems with viruses, malware, or any other intrusions. Works great. I would like to know what fax machine you are using? I use ColorFax Lite to fax directly from my PC and it works great. I could not get my Lexmark to work with it. Through further research on the subject of faxing with MJ I found that it was rather hit and miss as far as what will work, you just have to try it. So I was not about to buy any new fax machines that is when I decided to go the fax software route. I found the free version of ColorFax Lite developed by BlackIce, tried it and find that it works great with the convenience to fax from Office, Adobe, etc.

[winapp2.zip download NOT working]

I couldn't download the file using Firefox, and I couldn't download it using Chrome.

I successfully downloaded it using Internet Explorer 8, so I guess IE is preferred web browser here

I just downloaded it with FireFox 3.0.13 and had no problems. Everything else as far as browsing seems to work fine with FF.