Re: Laptop recovery software

["H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long () YALE EDU>]

CompuTrace (LoJackForLapTops(TM))

        A lot of colleges either provide or recommend CompuTrace from
Absolute Software
        ( http://www.absolute.com/ -- you'll see a # of blurbs with various
higher ed  logos on
        the website).  We recommend it on many of our web pages including
one where we
        offer a special code for 10% off  (I don't know if it will work for
you or yours -- you may
        want to contact the company to get your own 10% off discount code):

        http://www.yale.edu/securityawareness/lojackforlaptops.html

The story of zTrace --

        Once upon a time there was a company called zTrace (and there still
is www.ztrace.com).

        We recommended them to our students in 2003.  Around 2004 they
"went out of the computer
        tracing business" in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and Australia for
various reasons I won't
        go into here).  They are still putting our name on their and a link
to a public press release
        involving our University on their main website (even though we
cannot purchase computer
        tracing through them anymore).  If you click on a link and fill out
the form to indicate you are
        in one of these countries and are interested in computer tracing
software you are redirected
        to http://www.absolute.com/.

- H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM, CEH
  University Information Security Officer
  Director -- Information Security Office
  Yale University, ITS



On Aug 7, 2006, at 4:09 PM, William C. Moore II 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.