Comments on: LoJack for Laptops

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:08:26 +0000

I gotta say, I hate when companies post comments pretending to be a consumer.

This item keeps switching between, “I just purchased…” to sound like a poster, but keeps falling into, “contact us,” or “our team” later on.

By: isimo

isimo — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:23:00 +0000

LoJack resides in a portion of the Bios, you flash the bios and it’s gone. And embedded GPS chip with a radio transmitter in the motherboard could be a better solution, but you now , now pops privacy issues and all the stuff…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:19:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:01:00 +0000

The funny thing is this software can easily be disabled in the registry where even the auto repair mode will not work. Anyone with any decent software and technical knowledge can disable the service to never start or repair itself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:35:00 +0000

It’s not just on the hard drive under the operating system.

By: charm

charm — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:10:00 +0000

The fact that LoJack's "System requirements" are Windows XP/Vista and an Internet connection with IE6 or newer speaks volumes about this software.

What's to prevent a thief from removing the hard drive, or overwriting the hard drive with Linux.

Having worked with quite a few computers I've encountered hardware lojack-type solutions in desktop systems and once you removed the card, the system returns to normal (i.e. able to change the BIOS, etc.).

What this software does do is prevent the thief who's desperate for a quick buck.

I think you would have been better off with a hardware solution, but this software *is* an okay partial solution.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:15:00 +0000

Also take a look at GadgetTrak

http://www.gadgettrak.com

They have theft recovery software for laptops, as well as mobile phones, iPods, digital cameras and more.

By: bugs

bugs — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:14:00 +0000

Hi there,

Have you considered undercover from http://www.orbicule.com before buying that software (this is the one I am using).

just asking because i never heard of your software before and am wondering if one is better than the other.

By: stuart

stuart — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:55:00 +0000

I’d like to know how the software keeps working after the hard drive has been reformatted or the OS reinstalled? I looked on their site and I couldn’t see them make any claims that this is possible. The only way I can think of that would make this possible, is if they installed a bit of hardware in your laptop that had it’s own internet connection, with a GPS.

By: TranceMist

TranceMist — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:27:00 +0000

I am really skeptical of their claims that the software will remain functional even if the hard drive is re-formatted.

Anyway, from what you write, I have two suggestions for you.

1. Buy more 8GB CF cards and don't carry your laptop so much if it's just to offload photos. (cards are cheap)

2. Use SuperDuper! to make backups of your MacBook Pro by cloning the disk to an external one. Thus if your laptop is stolen, you won't lose much data.

The latter point is really important.

I have two WD MyBook FireWire disks I use as a backup for my MacPro. SuperDuper! clones! my! main! disk! to one periodically, while the other stays in the vault at the bank.

Then I rotate the backup in the vault with the one on my desk monthly.

(all my 12 years of photos are backed up in Aperture vaults on these disks)

I do the same thing for my MacBook Pro and my daughters' MacBooks. One more external FW disk sliced up into partitions to backup those three laptops.

We've already used it twice when each of their MacBooks needed service and had to be restored.