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How to Buy Laptop Tracking Software

Updated on July 19, 2014
Laptop Tracking Software-How to Track Stolen Laptops
Laptop Tracking Software-How to Track Stolen Laptops

Now-a-days in corporate world Laptop tracking software is must for everyone.What if tomorrow your laptop get hijacked or lost anyway. Perhaps you will buy a new one since the price of laptops are getting down every month. In case your laptop has some of your important project details or any kind of confidential business information which is very sensitive for you business rivals. There is no way you can get your back laptop unless you are very lucky. Like every disaster we also have many disaster recovery plan. One of the very crucial yet unnoticed precaution can be taken against stolen laptop recovery is the using laptop tracking software.


How laptop tracking software works?

To activate laptop tracking for your laptop you need to install a tracking software on your computer. This software will generate a unique identification number for you laptop and this unique number will be sent online to the laptop tacking service provider’s server. In case your laptop get stolen the server will track the unique identification number of you laptop and will give you important clue about the location of the thief. This type of software works well on Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7.

This type of softwares are very difficult to detect by anyone once installed in any laptop because it does not listed as an application when installed. Not even does it show up on program menu-so it’s nearly impossible to know for a thief about the presence of tracking software on the stolen laptop.

Note: Before buying laptop tracking software you need to confirm that if your vendor’s tracking software is already embedded in BIOS firmware of you laptop. If it is so then you stolen laptop can be easily detected even if a thief try to re-install the operating system, formats the hard drive or replace the hard drive.

What to do when your laptop get stolen?

After your laptop get stolen straight away report to your laptop tracking vendor company and then they will start tracking of your laptop’s location once you stolen laptop gets connected to Internet. By capturing the transmitted data over the Internet Laptop theft recovery team are able to pinpoint the geographical location of the laptop. Then you need to contact with the local law enforcement personals to recover it.

How much does laptop tracking software cost?

To get the tracking service you must register with some laptop tracking company. Usually per year cost of this tracking service is 20-40 US dollars only. But the per year service charge will decrease much more if you register for more than one year.


Some other important features of the tracking software

  • Apart from Geo-locating your stolen laptop using the tracking software, some software even give the facility to retrieve files secretly from the theft laptop. For business people, the value of information in theft laptop is much more important to the physical value of the laptop itself. To, retrieve information you just need to log on from any computer into your anti-theft software account, and then even without alerting the thief you can copy all the data back to your home PC over Internet, no matter where the laptop thief is residing.
  • Another important aspect of this type of software is to delete sensitive data remotely, if you consider that stored information in the missing laptop is extremely sensitive and valuable for your business competitors, and then you can simply log in to your account and delete any file that might pose a threat for you if exposed to public or competitors. Delete option will let you erase files by mentioning file name or by location of the file in the hard drive. After deletion, there will be no way for the thief to retrieve the files, even if he uses the most technically advanced computer forensic data recovery software.

laptop tracing software
laptop tracing software

Some Laptop tracking software companies:

  1. AsseTrax by Authentic Venture Sdn Bhd.
  2. ActiveTrak Mobile endpoint security.
  3. MacTrak: Privacy Safe Anti-Theft for OS X.
  4. BackStopp by Virtuity, Ltd.
  5. Computrace by Absolute Software.
  6. The CyberAngel w/ Wi-Trac by CyberAngel Security Solutions, Inc.
  7. FailSafe by Phoenix Technologies.
  8. Undercover for Mac OS X and iPhone by Orbicule
  9. GadgetTrak's PC-Trak for Windows
  10. LoJack for Laptops
  11. nTracker by SyNet Electronics, Inc.
  12. MyLaptopGPS

Finally, before buying any Laptop tracking software or deciding in taking the service of laptop tracking try to checkout the company's reputation and the review of that software because all software will promise you the advanced functionality but when the in reality to find a stolen laptop the service is of the tracking company will do the real job.

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