Ira Wilsker's archive

New MagicJack Plus offers quality inexpensive phone service

If you watch any TV, you have undoubtedly seen the countless commercials for MagicJack, offering to save users hundreds of dollars a year in phone bills for a monthly fee of about $2. When it first came out about three years ago, I reviewed the original MagicJack in this column and on my weekly radio show.

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Microsoft offers free ‘Windows Defender Offline Tool’ in beta

One major problem detecting and neutralizing much of the current crop of malware is that the malware very effectively protects itself from detection and removal by many of the more traditional security methods. Since many of today’s most prevalent PC security threats load when the computer is booted and often involve a rootkit, common security software may either be unable to detect the malware or may actually be deactivated by that malware but still appear to be running normally.

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Basic computer training for seniors and others

As many of you already know, I occasionally volunteer to teach computer classes at the Best Years Senior Center. Seniors probably make up the largest group of new computer users, as many had lived their entire lives without utilizing many of the current technologies.

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