Shoutbox

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Originally posted by dotNorma
I had iLocalis installed on my iPhone (the equivalent of this) and was stumbling through downtown Houston very much under the influence the other day when I got jumped. Much to my dismay the thiefs immediately turned off my phone thus rendering iLocalis useless. From there, all it would take is to plug it in and restore it to factory defaults to eliminate this problem.

I suspect somebody stealing a laptop would be even more keen to this and boot from a windows install disk or some shit.

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preyproject.com/faq


Can Prey be removed by a thief?

Not unless he has your administrative password.
And what if he formats the computer?

That’s a different story. We encourage you to add a BIOS password and disable booting from removable devices on your PC, so that the thief will be forced to boot into the previous installation and thus, not be able to format your hard disk easily.

If you have a Mac, there’s a firmware password utility on your Mac OS installation DVD. You can find it in in Applications/Utilities on the disc.

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