Comments on: Use Adeona to help recover a lost or stolen laptop

By: Jeefers

Jeefers — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:07:48 +0000

Well I am damned sure not to allow my computer out of my site without securing the machine with a password, so to me it is pretty useless to use this software, as there is no way they will get the machine booted in the first place.
Generally, the idea is that the data is more important than the machine and programs, so you secure the machine from booting. If everyone did that, stolen laptops would have no value other than a few cheap parts to sell on ebay.

By: Marcos

Marcos — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:48:13 +0000

Muito legal cara, boa a dica, instalei no meu notbook com o windows vista, tomara que nao precise usar.

By: DanielS

DanielS — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:59:16 +0000

I love this idea, and have seen a few other options that are installed and run after POST via a BIOS Setting (this is installed from the manufacturer see Dell) so reinstall of your OS or not, it IS still possible to do this very same thing! Love a free version though! and yes a VERY SECURE PASSWORD would be a very good idea like Ross mentioned.

Nice Post I also gave you a thumbs up Thanks! I’m off to try it out!

By: Ross McKillop

Ross McKillop — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:52:40 +0000

lcabral,

Right. Obviously a computer savvy thief wouldn’t go online with your laptop. The average thief? Maybe not so computer savvy. They did STEAL your laptop after all, not the brightest thing to do.

“having someone with my logs from where I’m accessing…” – Um no. YOU have the logs from where THEY’RE accessing. Hence the whole creating a secure Adeona password – the logs are stored on the Adeona server, which can only be accessed if you have both the retrieval file and password that goes with it.

Adeona clearly isn’t going to recover every laptop that gets stolen. The thief will need to go online, and the police/authorities will need to understand how the info you provide them can help. But it does certainly increase your chances of the laptop being recovered.

By: lcabral

lcabral — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:41:09 +0000

It is hard for me to believe that a morron that steals my laptop would use my configuration(either linux or windows)… It would be simpler to do a fresh install than to hack my passwords. ( Yeah, Yeah… single user mode and stuff… And connet to the internet with a stolen computer? REally stupid.

As this is all software based it really depends on the thief not formating your disk before connecting to the internet…
And having someone with my logs from where I’m accessing… in todays days, the world is really insecure to let this information out… Someone can use it to steal or even kill me

By: Open Source Depot

Open Source Depot — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:57:15 +0000

Cool…I gave you a thumbs up!

By: Hosting Reviews

Hosting Reviews — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:52:14 +0000

This is simply too cool. I would freak out if I lost my laptop or computer some how. Too much info I can’t afford to lose. (note to self, backup more often!).

Hopefully who ever has your lost computer doesn’t wipe it clean. That’s probably what most of us would do.