Laptop stolen? Find it with Locate Laptop

Mar 10, 2008 Security Issues

If you’ve ever been in a situation where you lost / misplaced your laptop and despaired of ever getting it back again, you’d wish you had installed Locate Laptop on it.

Ok, so what is Locate Laptop?

Well, it is a system brought out by Unistal Systems, a provider of data care, data recovery, anti-virus and Internet security products.

What does it do and how does it work?

Once installed on a laptop, it resides and operates in stealth mode, silently transfering critical stuff to their servers. If you think your laptop has been stolen, you can login to this site’s Personal Tracking and Monitoring Page to view and trace where your laptop has been accessed from.

You then need to confirm that it is indeed a theft by reporting it to Unistal’s emergency response team, who activate Locate Laptop’s WebSniff technology and sounds an alert as soon as the offender connects to the internet. The City and IP address are informed to the user. It keeps tracking all the locations whenever the offender connects to the internet, so you need to hope and pray that the cops in your city are cyber savvy enough to see this trail and nab the culprit.

How much does it cost ?

$75 (Rs.3,000), which doesn’t seem quite a lot.

What if I still can’t get my laptop back?

Unistal has a money back guarantee ONLY for Indian customers, offering 5 times the cost of this system, in case the laptop cannot be traced, and subject to proper FIR submission !! No wonder, these chaps know the Indian criminal system well enough ! So good luck with the FIR, and if that goes well, what you get back in this case is Rs.15,000 (in all probability, less than half the price of a your laptop, not to mention your data which is gone forever).

I’d prefer to wait a bit, though, before I go rushing out to buy this. How about you ?