What's your opinion on this software?

[yknott]

Read this first

"No, it isn't some stupid, over hyped Hollywood flick. This is real life! With more and more people finding the joys and freedom of owning a Notebook computer, more and more notebooks are getting stolen every day. So how do we safeguard against this? Well, except for locking it up in your house, there really isn't any good way keeping it away from the hands of a thief. Let's just say for a sec that it does go missing. What do you do? Do you phone 911? Do you call security? Chances are, your notebook is long gone by the time you do that, in fact, the folks at Absolute Software are counting on that! Their Computrace Security Software is hidden deep inside your notebook and cannot be removed without the CD and a special key. So when the crooks think that wiping out the hard drive will do the trick, the first time the notebook surfaces on the Internet, the hidden software activates and silently calls the monitoring centre letting you know where it is. "

What do you think abou this? I personally dont think it works because fdisk wipes everything. Especially the FAT table maeanin that there is no way to access the files. do you think this works?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Read this first

&quot;No, it isn't some stupid, over hyped Hollywood flick. This is real life! With more and more people finding the joys and freedom of owning a Notebook computer, more and more notebooks are getting stolen every day. So how do we safeguard against this? Well, except for locking it up in your house, there really isn't any good way keeping it away from the hands of a thief. Let's just say for a sec that it does go missing. What do you do? Do you phone 911? Do you call security? Chances are, your notebook is long gone by the time you do that, in fact, the folks at Absolute Software are counting on that! Their Computrace Security Software is hidden deep inside your notebook and cannot be removed without the CD and a special key. So when the crooks think that wiping out the hard drive will do the trick, the first time the notebook surfaces on the Internet, the hidden software activates and silently calls the monitoring centre letting you know where it is. &quot;

What do you think abou this? I personally dont think it works because fdisk wipes everything. Especially the FAT table maeanin that there is no way to access the files. do you think this works? >>



I didnt finish reading the page (quite an annoying page actually) but if you fdisk the data is still there. The government standard I believe if 7 overwrites. The data must be overwriten 7+ times before the original data is gone.

 

[Workin']

There are areas of the hard disk that fdisk doesn't touch. I'm sure this program writes its info there.

Then there's the matter of actually figuring out where the stolen computer is. That's the hard part...

 

[yknott]

I realise the data is still there, however the FAT tables that index the files are gone. The only thing not over written is the MBR. You can't really hide a program like that there. Besides, could this program then connect to the internet?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I realise the data is still there, however the FAT tables that index the files are gone. The only thing not over written is the MBR. You can't really hide a program like that there. Besides, could this program then connect to the internet? >>



I believe the intro page mentioned that the system had to connect to the internet, not that the program would connect to the net. The only way I can think that something like this would work if it was a hardware solution. I personally would hold onto my laptop tighter and not use my money on something like that.

 

[yknott]

I was just wondering if this was acutally possible. It's not a hardware solution, just a softwre solution. I think It's bull but I just wanted to get a few other people's opinions

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I was just wondering if this was acutally possible. It's not a hardware solution, just a softwre solution. I think It's bull but I just wanted to get a few other people's opinions >>



I deffinately wont say it is impossible, but I have no clue how it would be possible.

 

[yknott]

Anyone else know how this would be possible?

 

[Workin']

<< The only thing not over written is the MBR. You can't really hide a program like that there. >>

You can write a virus that can replicate from the MBR, why not a legitimate program? Or how about writing the data to sector 0 or the end sector of the drive? That's 2 ways to do it and I'm certainly no expert on even sneakier ways...