Comments on: CyberNotes: Track a Stolen Computer

By: Reponse to Dee's Question

Reponse to Dee's Question — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:38:51 +0000

No you Dum Dee Dum. This program is not a double standards.

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By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:54:22 +0000

someone stole my emial can i track him by using this program…
help me please

By: Track or Recover a Stolen PC using LocatePC

Track or Recover a Stolen PC using LocatePC — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:54:56 +0000

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By: JMisner

JMisner — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:41:52 +0000

Another great program that is similar and seemingly more powerful is LaptopLock. Currently a free service which not only tracks your laptop by IP, but you can set it up to automatically encrypt or wipe sensitive information you choose, should the thief connect to the internet on your PC. You can also have the program run another program, such as a batch script. The way this works is you would login to their website and report your laptop stolen; then when the LaptopLock service on your PC polls the website for the laptop’s status and finds it stolen, it will execute the commands you set it up to.

[thelaptoplock.com]

Ofcourse, as noted, this wouldn’t fool an intelligent thief — they would likely never run the host operating system live, rather ripping the data directly off the hard drive. However, it seems very lightweight on resources, better than nothing for an important laptop.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:44:17 +0000

Brandon wrote:

Does the application work before the computer is actually logged in or not until after you enter your login credentials? If someone stole your computer and couldn’t login they would probably format it and get rid of it before the application had a chance to grab the info.

That's one of the downsides... the user does have to be logged in for it to run. Hopefully in the future they would be able to make this run as a service.

Anonymous wrote:

What a POS. this will hardly work against a smart theif

It's free, and anything that could help return your computer is a big plus in my book.

Anthony wrote:

It will NOT work at all - any network that proxyes the traffic (where no direct SMTP connections are allowed) will stop it dead. Most ISPs do not allow to use foreign SMTP servers…

I doubt some thief is going to take this to an elaborate corporate network or anything. They'll likely take it hope and connect it to a simple router.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:24:38 +0000

It will NOT work at all – any network that proxyes the traffic (where no direct SMTP connections are allowed) will stop it dead. Most ISPs do not allow to use foreign SMTP servers…

So, this is a real POS.

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:25:40 +0000

Personal firewall will be able to block the SMTP outgoing messages. Will work for non techie thieves only.

By: kcpdx

kcpdx — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:25:22 +0000

“What a POS. this will hardly work against a smart theif”

That’s a pretty bold statement, from what Ive seen most theifs aren’t very smart to begin with, that’s why there theifs.

Implemented right this tool can be very useful, beats paying a monthly fee or the potential of having a third party monitor your computer/s.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:56:20 +0000

What a POS. this will hardly work against a smart theif