Track Your Stolen Laptop : Adeona & LocatePC

Posted by Deathowl @ Vpoint7 | 06 March 2009 | |
Its been a while, even sometimes we need to accept the real world that there is no total safe places to stay especially student. I have been thinking that it is still important to install such program even though the chances of retrieval would be less than 10% since that my laptop is only 8 month years old. Its not new, but free. No latest version is found since August 2008 and it is open source base software for Adeona.

Software 1 : Adeona

Supported OS ?
Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux only.

Where to download and how to install ?
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/downloads.html

Picture 1 - The program is running during the tracking system.
Process seen during the program is running

Picture 2 - Complete file is put into *.txt file, can be open with Notepad.
Open the reference file after process is complete

Picture 3 - Copy & paste the IP and wait for result such image below.
Put the IP number appropiately

Picture 4 - One of the result seen.
The geographically location from the site


Software 2 : LocatePC

Supported OS ?
Windows Vista/XP/Me/98 only.

Where to download and how to install ?
http://www.iconico.com/locatePC/

Picture 1 - The main menu of the program. You have to set the login password. Version that I used is 1.5.
Main Frame

Picture 2 - The received mail from the program.
Received e-mail from the program sent

How effective Adeona/LocatePC is ?
In my opinion, psychologically, the thief will not format the file system because they expect to get something for entertainment (media files) or credential such accounts or personal matters. So they wont expect that something has been planted in the system for that stolen laptop. Somehow, it is too dependent that the stolen laptop must be available online and the free online map services such Google Mapping is not accurate to locate/specify the exact location especially for Malaysia. There are few commercial program out there, and the chances would be much better due to implementation of Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) and hardware based Digital Rights Management (DRM) into the hardware. You may join up their forum for further information.

+ Further details on Adeona can be downloaded on my GreenBox on the top right of the page.

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