Comments on: Poor Mans Laptop LoJack http://johndball.blaize.net/2007/07/07/poor-mans-laptop-lojack/ cool stuff to make you smarter Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: SmarterThanThieves http://johndball.blaize.net/2007/07/07/poor-mans-laptop-lojack/comment-page-1/#comment-370 SmarterThanThieves Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:03:04 +0000 http://johndball.blaize.net/?p=166#comment-370 To catch a dumb thief, sure, but if I lifted a laptop, the first thing I'd do is ensuer it's not online at startup. Get what I want off it, then wipe it clean for resale on the black market or in a pawn shop 50 miles or more away (or farther away since I don't want the place remembering me). To catch a dumb thief, sure, but if I lifted a laptop, the first thing I’d do is ensuer it’s not online at startup. Get what I want off it, then wipe it clean for resale on the black market or in a pawn shop 50 miles or more away (or farther away since I don’t want the place remembering me).

]]> By: Ollie http://johndball.blaize.net/2007/07/07/poor-mans-laptop-lojack/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Ollie Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:12:09 +0000 http://johndball.blaize.net/?p=166#comment-36 Nice, though you can take a few other steps to secure it even more. I use the ddclient in my Linux laptop to do the same thing which is far more undetectable, but a colleague wanted the same type of functionality on his windows laptop which is where your page came in handy whilst looking for a ddclient alternative, though I added a few steps to make it more undetectable. One problem is that if the laptop has no Internet connection the icon will show in the task bar even if set to not show in the program settings, to fix this you will need to right click on the start menu > select properties > click customise > scroll down to the dnsupdater icon and set to always hide. Second issue is that the dyndns updater will be listed in the add/remove programs, so you will need to either edit the registry or find an app that can remove the listing from the add/remove dialogue. Third I would advise to not install the util in it's default location and with it's default name, hide it somewhere and change the folder name to something generic that blends into the surrounding folders. Nice, though you can take a few other steps to secure it even more. I use the ddclient in my Linux laptop to do the same thing which is far more undetectable, but a colleague wanted the same type of functionality on his windows laptop which is where your page came in handy whilst looking for a ddclient alternative, though I added a few steps to make it more undetectable.

One problem is that if the laptop has no Internet connection the icon will show in the task bar even if set to not show in the program settings, to fix this you will need to right click on the start menu > select properties > click customise > scroll down to the dnsupdater icon and set to always hide.

Second issue is that the dyndns updater will be listed in the add/remove programs, so you will need to either edit the registry or find an app that can remove the listing from the add/remove dialogue.

Third I would advise to not install the util in it’s default location and with it’s default name, hide it somewhere and change the folder name to something generic that blends into the surrounding folders.

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]]> By: Embarassed http://johndball.blaize.net/2007/07/07/poor-mans-laptop-lojack/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Embarassed Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:42:57 +0000 http://johndball.blaize.net/?p=166#comment-35 So, is there some reason you couldn't have posted this five days ago, BEFORE my laptop was stolen??? So, is there some reason you couldn’t have posted this five days ago, BEFORE my laptop was stolen???

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