Various ways to disable your laptop in case of theft

In case your laptop is stolen there are various ways by which you can trace it out or disable it to protect your vital data from getting into wrong hands. There are systems that do useful work of mitigating the consequences of theft. They are tracking software, encryption and switches that can make laptop’s data self-destruct. Computrace is one such tracking system. Computrace, run by Absolute Software of Vancouver, Canada, raises hopes, in this regard. When laptops are monitored by Computrace, every laptop reports to the company server via Net, each day. In case the computer is stolen, the server shall instruct it to send messages every 15 minutes. If the machine’s Internet address could be pinned to a street address, the police can trace it out. Computrace service costs about $50 per year per machine.

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