Notebook theft and the almost life-threatening consequences

July 30th, 2010 by Manmohan Leave a reply »

You pay 50,000 euros to recover your laptop,” is carved in letters on the letter, which was pushed through shortly after the disappearance of the laptop under the door. The perfidy: The letter is written to receiver with his personal name, which means that the thief has already found out the name and address.

At the same time the thief has the e-mail Acccount the notebook owner a bomb warning sent to an airport, which causes a stir in the media. At the same time running on Ebay on behalf of the injured already offer to buy Neverland ranch due to end in one minute. Dramatic can not take a personalized promotional film on the subject fast.

Fujitsu advertises not only for its Advanced Theft Protection (ATP) but is below the link to their distributors and an impressive tool that they a few hours before a deadline to each customer personal caller can send for example.

The consequences of a sustained notebook theft need not as run time, but impressed with the video. Of course video is the sending of a client or friend is not quite the transmission of data from without. Fujitsu is one on the corresponding page indication to that effect (see box).

The modular safety system consists of the ATP-Software Computrace from Absolute Software , including the hardware. It works for the user or alleged thief completely invisible. Computrace is a combined software and BIOS on the disk. After installation and registration, the owner can choose which measures the loss of the computer should be taken. If the laptop gets lost, notify the owner of the unit via phone or online from missing.

After the software is activated and when the thief creates an internet connection, can the Theft Recovery Team of the system read the data, to determine where the computer is located. This information is forwarded to the local police.

If the thief but not the Net, which is notebook automatically disabled after a certain time, but only if the countdown timer in the Intel Anti-Theft technology has enabled the theft of the.

Besides the possible retrieval of the device, depending on the settings in the software, further actions will be initiated.

The conditions for the full functionality of the Advanced Theft Protection is the Intel Centrino 2 processor technology with Intel vPro and Intel Anti-Theft technology that notebook system may disable the whole. Customers who already own a Lifebook, to help a compatibility list, consider whether it is suitable for Advanced Theft Protection for.

Current offers Fujitsu for the Tablet PC, model “Lifebook T900″ and a 12-inch notebook ‘LifeBook P770 “the ATP licenses to retail prices of 77 € for one year, 125 € for two years and 165 € for three years to . (bw)

Source:http://www.channelpartner.de/channelcenter/mobilecomputing/294105/

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