Computer Recycling In Milford

The ComputerFox at 374 New Have Ave. in Milford is accepting computers for recycling. While we do not have an event day our location is open for recycling Monday through Saturday from 12-4P.M.

The ComputerFox will accept old monitors, Software, Laptops, Desktops, and computer peripherals such as old drives, keyboards and mice. No appointment is required, there is no fee for dropping off items and for those concerned about identity theft a separate service is available for a $20.00 fee. This service will guarantee that all vital data on your Hard Drives is securely erased and your drive recycled.

The ComputerFox has recycled countless computers over the years, with many donated to needy families, used as discount repair parts, or sold as low cost alternatives to struggling people with limited income. The Computerfox offers its in-house computers for free to any job seekers.

Anyone who is a recipient of state assistance and has children in a Milford School are also eligible for a free computer for the duration of that persons kids education in Milford Schools.

For More information on computer recycling contact our office by clicking the $99 ad to the right, or call us at (203) 647-0380.

Plans Underway For A Milford Computer Recycling Day

Plans are currently underway to investigate an ideal site and location for a Milford Computer Recycling day. The program will most likely be held at an Eco-friendly location here in Milford and will focus on cleaning up old computers and E-Waste from the community. Old computers contain heavy metals including lead, beryllium, phosphorus and like contaminants making their recycling greatly important in reducing the impact on the environment.

The program also combats identity theft by destroying hard drives, and any access to personal files on your computer. Destroying these drives makes it impossible for thieves to use data mining to steal credit card numbers, Social Security Information or like accounts that can lead to years of credit correction issues.

We have not yet set an official date but expect we will announce one soon. For anyone interested in volunteering or offering ideas the ComputerFox located on New Haven Ave. in Milford will be entertaining questions and suggestions. Please feel free to contact Rocco J. Frank at (203) 247-4357 and leave a message.

This program has already been successfully implemented at nature centers in New Canaan and Westport.

Maintaining Your Privacy Online

Many people are completely unaware that their online privacy may be compromised. Many devices such as cable modems, DSL Modems, and routers record and assign every computer with an IP (Internet Protocol)address that is as unique and as traceable as your home phone number.

Our Ip addresses have the the likenesses of a phone number except it be a caller ID on who is entering your computer. If you could install the the equivalent of a "Caller Id" on your computer you might just be amazed at how many unauthorized intrusions are out there.

The novice person often has no clue who these intruders are, but in most cases they end up being Ad Servers, Data Mining Programs, or possibly even more destructive nuisances like Computer Viruses, Malware, Spyware, and Adware.

In either case we do not want them in our computers. The way I personally maintain privacy is by first using a virus utility, my favorite is AVG Free, next I install Windows Defender, I then make sure all my windows updates are up to par. The most important being the Microsoft Malware Remover and Anti-Phishing program update. To cap the entire security gamut I add an IP privacy program called "Proxyway."

Anyone wishing to test their security can find a host of websites designed to try and figure out who you are. If they cannot ID who you are then its safe to do true anonymous surfing and blogging with more confidence and less fear of "big brother." One last point to those of you who have a camera and microphone hooked up to your computer, BAD IDEA!!!

Youtube and many video upload sites have the ability to take control of your webcam and microphone. Aside from the Orwellian creepiness of this, who knows what they can do once it is accessed. Best advice on this front is turn your computer off, and unplug the studio. This is the best way to know that your computer is not listening or staring back at you.

Mac users should have little concern over viruses, as the OS is much more protected than that of a PC but as a precaution I would include an IP Privacy tool on Safary or your favorite browser. Mostly follow the same guidelines as PC users.

If anyone has any other questions regarding software and computer security feel free to leave your comments below and I will answer them next time I log on.

Rupert Murdoch's Myspace Agenda

Today's article will explain why I made the decision to remove my link to Myspace. The decision to keep it off may be temporary or permanent depending on our final staff discussions. Currently we are discussing strategy on how to maintain our presence on their network, without compromising our message to you.

To explain how we arrived at this point it is important to know that our idea of using Myspace was due in part to Myspace advertising itself as a social networking site. When we decided to embark on this journey my partner was rather sceptical of this idea, as she saw an enormous amount of negative publicity surrounding Myspace. This was due to the media barrage that pedophiles were using Myspace to lure young children into relationships.

It was my opinion that Myspace responded to the negative publicity by implementing new safeguards to protect young children, and to give parents some security that their kids identity online could be protected. One thing that is important to know is that Myspace is still in its experimental or as we tech guys call it in its "Beta" stage. Parents still need to take notice and be aware of what their kids are doing on Myspace, especially the nature of their conversations with strangers.

To get into my situation, this is how we got suspended. We set up an account, and added our music, movies photos and information just like anyone else. We then did a search for Milford, CT and began networking by sending people a message and an invitation to join us as a friend. Soon after building up about 60 friends our account was suspended. At first we thought that we were somehow overzealous in our efforts to reach people and perhaps we were reported as spammers.

We then sent an e-mail to Myspace complaining about this suspension scenario. The Myspace team then replied back a day later with what looked like a non-human responce. They said we were imposters, or we were suspended due to the fact that we were impersonating someone else. This made absolutely no sense, so we believed that rather than fight this out we would just chalk it off. We even thought that maybe one of my opponents supporters reported us to bag our efforts at of which included disagreeing with him.

We started over and began again, this time with more caution and instead of the hundreds of friend invites, we kept it down to 50 or less pending invites. We built up to 30 friends and again we were suspended without explanation.

This prompted me to Google this problem and up came 663,000 hits on the error message stating: Invalid friend ID This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted. I did more research and landed a few criticisms of the site. The one that was most astounding was Rupert Murdoch was behind this site of which already made me uneasy since he is a known minion and supporter of media censorship.

To make things more interesting, the Connecticut Post confirmed in today's paper that the United States has now fallen to 48Th in Freedom of the Press out of 169. This now puts Slovakia ahead of the U.S. in free speech, and as Michael Moore states health care too.

So why the censorship? While I am no advocate of conspiracy theories, I will say that the vast number of complaints against Myspace is alarming, and Alex Jones whose article I will not rewrite in its entirety will be included as a link below. My personal belief is that Myspace is being used to heavily promote Hillary Clinton whose face is plastered in every ad, and people with objecting points of view appear to be under fire as the number of complaints I have currently read, and am still reading appear to be politically motivated giving Alex Jones much credibility in his assertions.

This video is one of thousands. It is a posting from a person who claims all grass roots efforts to promote Ron Paul are deliberately being deleted and censored by the Myspace Minions.



Read Alex Jones article at:

http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/myspace_trojan_horse_of_internet_censorship.htm

The Internet will Soon be Vulnerable to Taxation.

The Internet tax moratorium will expire on November 1, 2007. Congressman Jim Walsh is a co-sponsor of H.R. 743, this bill amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on State taxation of Internet access. It also prohibits the application of multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.

H.R. 743 has 237 co-sponsors, suggesting the bill would have little trouble passing the full House if called for a vote. Recent reports by me on this blog board have called attention to the attack on the internet by our countries leaders who are constantly looking for ways to pay for things. Taxation being their favorite. This bill, however would be a complete upset to the millions of internet users who would see their already high internet service bills skyrocket.

This bill will act with discriminatory animosity toward everyone who already is dependent on the internet for their careers, jobs, and school. This measure to protect the internet from taxation must be supported by every concerned citizen who believes that the last bastion of free speech must remain as pristine and untouched as when it first began.

Our nation has a reputation, for excessive spending, making bad laws, and then rarely to never fixing the problems those laws created in the first place. We need to send a message to our leaders that we will not allow the continuous and unrelenting policy of taxation ruin our lives, and our ability to prosper any more than it already has. Voice your opinion and call your Congressman and tell them not to tax the Internet.

Architects and Engineers Challenge 9/11

The following video was discovered recently. It is being placed here to arm you the casual novice person. It will hopefully enlighten you as to a new perspective.


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Computer Recycling New Connecticut Law

The ComputerFox in Conjunction with the Earthplace Center in Westport, Ct has taken on the battle to protect the privacy of its local citizens. The ComputerFox whose main headquarters is in Milford, CT also has regional locations in Fairfield and Norwalk, CT.

Michael Vecchiarelly the Public Relations person for these public events, said that "the statistics on identy theft are staggering. Each year millions of people have their credit affected due to fraud, and the principal way people have their identies stolen is through their faulty computer security practices."

In some cases brazen criminals will rifle through your home trash looking for Social security numbers, maiden names, and accounts you may have. For this reason the Frank campaign has organized an onsite shredding service and Computer Recycling program aimed at destroying data. Frank is also available to teach local corporations what documents a criminal would be interested in and how to shred or dispose of those documents in a secure way.

Rocco J. Frank Jr. is a security expert and former law enforcement agent he has also stated that there has been a recent influx of computer repair businesses in the market in the last few years. This rise has been due to the vast riches that were attained in the late 90's and many people from all areas of troubled countries like Nigeria have entered the Identity Theft arena in the hope of big profits. Even locally some unreputable computer repair people have turned to crime and are under investigation for criminal offenses including the former manager of the Norwalk Gateway Country store, who is serving time in prison on Federal Charges, stemming from thefts at Sikorski.

Consumers are encouraged to work with reputable computer companies who have demonstrated a solid role within their community and are well referenced. Frank stages each event for the purpose of achieving greater awarness of todays computer challenges and aims to win the trust of many locals who are afraid their data could fall into the wrong hands.

This is increasingly important because According to the state Department of Environmental Protection's Web site at www.ct.gov/dep/ a recent study estimates that Americans discard 12 to 14 million computer systems each year. Careful disposal of electronic devises is important because some contain "hazardous components that can include leaded glass from computer monitors and televisions. Materials such as beryllium, mercury, cadmium, nickel, zinc, silver and gold can be found in printed circuit boards. Other substances such as cadmium may be contained in batteries and mercury may also be present in relays and switches," writes the DEP.

Things on the identity theft front are about to get more interesting because Gov. Rell recently announced that she has signed into law a bill that calls for mandatory recycling of certain major electronic appliances.

The Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority, also known as RESCO in Bridgeport has began recycling computers in 1999, and its Web site (www.crra.org) claims the CRRA has collected more than 2.6 million pounds of unwanted, obsolete electronics equipment. These include personal computers. Computers that may contain information that an identity thief could use to steal your identity. Anyone concerned about data should contact Frank at the Computerfox at (203) 647-0380 for a secure erase data destruction.