olefarte
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If you travel a lot with a laptop the way I used to do, this might be something you should think about. This is new software that will track down your computer if it is stolen and then connected to the internet. I can say from experience that if you travel through large airports, the chances of a laptop being stolen is going up every day. Just by luck, I caught a man trying to get away with mine, while I was checking in. Ten seconds and he would have been gone, and I would have bought a new computer.
Read about the new software at C-Net News
Read about the new software at C-Net News
TheftGuard is..... meant to help victims of computer theft track down a perpetrator, if he or she uses the stolen machine to go online. "You know how he's accessing the Internet through his ISP, and then you can get the cops involved," said Timothy Eades, senior vice president and general manager of San Jose, Calif.-based Phoenix.