If your machine gets stolen or misplaced you can track it easily. There are tracking softwares available that can perform tracking of your machine (laptop/pc/notebook etc.).
How this tracking software works ?
This software is installed on the machine. It is invisible and stealth like keylogger or rootkit etc. Now if some attacker steals your machine you just need to inform the company who's product you have installed on your machine, rest of work will be done by the tracking software company.
Now whenever the attacker will connect to internet via any means using your machine, that tracking software will send the information like IP address to a central server that is the server of company who's product you have installed on your machine. Now the company got IP of the attacker it can trace its geographical location easily. If attacker connects to internet via dialup method then telephone number is also sent to server.
After it is confirmed that this is stolen machine some tracking sofware even make the whole data encrypted on the HDD and can even deny that laptop to communicate via internet anymore.
But here is drawback of tracking software :
The main power of this software is its weakness too.
If attacker uses some techinque to hide his/her actual IP by using proxy or any other means then your machine can't be traced.
So, next time if you steal laptop or PC better use proxy to connect to internet or format the HDD, else you can be in jail. ;-) lol
Here is list of some tracking software:
Ztrace Gold
www.ztrace.com
CyberAngel
www.sentryinc.com
Computrace Plus
www.computrace.com
XTool Computer Tracker
www.computersecurity.com
Hope you find this information useful.
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