3 Best freeware to track and find your stolen laptop.

Keeping our Laptops safe and secure is one the biggest priority, since there is always a chance that bad guys look for lazy and ignorant people who don’t care about care about them and one fine day end up losing it or getting stolen. It’s a valuable asset for us and we cannot think of getting this into some bad hands. But unfortunately these are the most which gets stolen. According to a survey around 97% of stolen laptop computers are never recovered. In this post I will explain about 3 best freeware applications which will track and find your stolen laptop. There are some common features for these applications which make it brilliant like it will run under complete hidden mode which makes it very difficult for thief’s to know that someone is tracking them.

  1. Adeona: An open source first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop. Adeona client continually monitors the current location of the laptop it gathers information such as IP addresses and local network topology which can be used to identify its current location of your laptop. It uses strong cryptographic mechanisms which not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the cipher texts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable, yet at the same time easy for an owner to retrieve location information. You can learn more and download this open source application here: Adeona.
  2. Locatemylaptop: Another free service which can track your laptop. Using Locatemylaptop is pretty simple, you need to download and install this application, then your laptop is registered you can track it anywhere .You can also remotely delete or shred the data beyond retrieval on your lost or stolen laptop computer. This application also runs in Stealth Mode which makes it impossible for people to check or disable it.  Learn more and grab this: Locatemylaptop.
  3. Preyproject: Another brilliant useful open source application which can track your device. All you have to do is to install a tiny agent in your PC or phone and then track your device. There are lot more features like take a snap of the victim with your webcam, watch their movements, scan your hard drive remotely , Wi-Fi denials and many more. Learn more and grab this: Preyproject.

Additionally to avoid formatting your pc, you can setup a bios password which will deny anyone to access bios and to format your pc.

If you know any such freeware’s, you can put a comment. 🙂

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