Re: Laptop recovery software

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

Hi,

The commercial product that does this is called PCPhoneHome from Brigadoon software.

We have a site licence from them - their pricing is reasonable.

Regards,
Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, CUIT
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel - You can't spell seCUrITy without CUIT


--On Monday, August 07, 2006 4:09 PM -0400 "William C. Moore II" <wcmoore () VALDOSTA EDU> wrote:

> Some time back an individual responded to a post and stated that he had
> developed a small software package that helped in laptop recovery.  The
> package basically sent an email message to a predefined email address each
> time the laptop gained Internet access.  I have searched the Security
> archives but I have not been successful in finding that message.
>
> If you have developed such a software package or know of similar products
> (primarily for student laptop use) please let me know if you are willing to
> share your code.  I am putting some advising tips and links together for our
> incoming Fall students and would like to provide the students with better
> means of being proactive in preventing student laptop theft.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> William C. Moore II, CISSP, MEd, MLIS
> Assistant Director of Information Technology
> Information Security
> Valdosta State University
> Valdosta, GA 31698
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Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, CUIT
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel - You can't spell seCUrITy without CUIT