7 responses to “MagicJack SLAPPed with $50,000 penalty”

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   rc primak February 25th, 2010 at 06:11

   Ugh!! I just read the BoingBoing article on the Magic Jack SLAPP lawsuit. It makes the company look butt ugly! I hadn’t realized what kind of EULA games and privacy violations the company may have been engaged in until I read this. My Dad has a Magic Jack installed on one of his computers. Anyone know how to uninstall the Magic Jack spyware –er, software?

   Magic Jack owners should read the whole article – this is seriously messed up stuff on the part of Magic Jack!!

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   Maghullyback February 25th, 2010 at 16:04

   Hey Woody,

   Check out this snippet of dialogue from the Iain M. Banks novel Use Of Weapons. Basically it’a a guy in a future world talking with his “intelligent” spacesuit. Remind you of anything?

   “Suit; patch into the aircraft; assume control without letting anybody else know.”
   “Assuming covert control-jurisdiction of single aircraft within range; confirm.”
   “Confirmed. And stop asking me to confirm everything.”
   “Control-juristiction assumed. Lapsing confirmatory instruction protocols; confirm.”
   “Good grief. Confirmed!”
   “Confirm protocol lapsed.”

   Published in 1990. Is this where Micro$oft got UAC from? Sounds like it to me.

   Cheers Woody.

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   rcprimak February 26th, 2010 at 04:52

   So, if someone wants to remove the Magic Jack software, any idea how to remove it? The article says there is no uninstaller.

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   EP March 1st, 2010 at 04:01

   oh terrific! one of my cousins use Magic Jack hardware and software on his laptop. don’t know how much he is using it though.

   rc primak, one could try these “uninstall” steps here:
   http://www.perfect-uninstaller.com/blog/how-to-unistall-magic-jack-software/

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   rc primak March 2nd, 2010 at 01:39

   EP –

   There actually turns out to be an uninstaller for the Magic Jack software — they just don’t provide it when you plug in the device. There’s a Lounge thread on the subject:

   http://lounge.windowssecrets.com/index.php?showtopic=772729&st=0&gopid=828602&#entry828602

   Thanks to moderator JoeP for the links to the instructions.

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   rc primak March 2nd, 2010 at 01:40

   Also, you cannnot run any super-uninstaller until there is an uninstaller for the software somewhere on your computer.

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   DeVaughn Salter September 22nd, 2011 at 08:11

   Did anyone attempt to unistall via control panel? Sounds logical to me.