Sunday, 17 July 2011

How To Protect Your Laptop From Theft

Posted by digital world at Sunday, July 17, 2011 Comments (11)
 
Laptops are one of the most portable devices around and that makes them an easy target for thefts. So what if the worst happens and your laptop is stolen, in that case wouldn't it be amazing if you can track your laptop, find its location, click a picture of the person using it or delete or modify all your personal data. This all can be done using this free software called preyproject. Read on to find out more.


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How to Use Prey Project:

Prey Project is a free open source software although there is a pro version too which isn't free.  It works on all platforms which means that all versions of windows, mac, and even linux. Here are the steps on how to use this to track your laptop:

1. First go this website, Prey Project, and click on download now(5.4mb)

2. Once downloaded run it and install it

3. After installation it will ask you to setup a new account. Choose setup reporting method click next, then choose prey+control panel. Then choose new user and then fill in the details username password etc 

stolen laptop


4. After that go to start->All Programs->Prey->Configure Prey and here you can configure your settings like automatically connect to a wifi etc 

stolen laptop

5. Once setup, check your email to activate the account.

6. After that just follow your email to login to the preyproject control panel

7. You can then choose if your laptop is missing and choose a lot of actions to perform, like find location, click a photo, erase data etc.

stolen laptop

8. It will then start reporting these things to your email address. You will get your first report within minutes. 


Its always better to be prepared for the worst. So set up PreyProject now and you will be ready to track your laptop if it gets stolen.  What's even more exciting is that you can use this to track your android phones too. And if you have some money to spare you can get some paid tracking softwares. If you have any doubts you can share them in the comments section below..



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techGALAXY · 715 weeks ago

very good!!! :D :o
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Cal | Wedding Favors · 714 weeks ago

Hi,

What if the laptop was reformatted by the thief? Will the software still work? Thanks.
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karan · 714 weeks ago

This is one of most common questions asked about such softwares. If the computer is successfully formatted it won't work for sure. What you can do, so that this doesn't happen, is to disallow booting from cd's and removable discs through the BIOS and then put a password to access the BIOS. So the thief won't be able to format the hard disk.

If you want instructions on how to do that, then you can mail me at digital.worldzzz@gmail.com. Hope this helped..

PS- Most thieves are not that smart anyway :D
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John · 714 weeks ago

This is really useful post for me since I always use my laptop on the go.
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karan · 714 weeks ago

:o Glad you found it useful john. That's the only thing that matters to me..
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Google Plus Mobile · 714 weeks ago

These are really great tips to protect laptop theft which has been rising quite substantially due to increase in laptop subscribers worldwide.
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Genie @ HLN · 701 weeks ago

This sounds phenomenal! But, how soon after it is stolen and used by the thief would the reporting started coming to the email? Couldn't the thief also uninstall this program?
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karan 47p · 690 weeks ago

Within minutes. And yes the thief can actually uninstall the program. But most thieves aren't that tech savy anyway. And the fact that you will get his details(location, pic, n other information) within minutes means he wont have much time to do any such thing unless he is really aware of something known as prey project.

Also Preyproject runs in the background and the thief would not know that he is monitored by any software.

Lastly its a free open source program so installing this program wont hurt you atleast. Sorry for the insanely late reply though. Been busy..
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abidalilliane 78p · 667 weeks ago

I really don't know if these would really work well, but I am willing to try this up for me to know how to protect my laptop from theft.
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