Comments on: Software to Protect Laptops from Being Stolen

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:15:49 +0000

@Taufiq,
In that case, there comes in the FTP and saving files on your own. The laptop of course wouldn’t sound when turned off!

By: Taufiq Hasan

Taufiq Hasan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:53:43 +0000

Haha,,maybe it will never happens to me, because I don’t have a laptop.. What if the laptop is turned off? Is the program still working?
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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:38:22 +0000

Hi Guys,
Here’s an important information shared by James Lee of LAlarm:

Due to the Gmail restriction, some files can not be uploaded. For example a file whose size is greater than 25MB or any executable program files. Gmail also restricts the free user account disk quota to few Giga bytes. Some other restrictions also exist. The data recovery process requires an Internet connection.

In this regard, you may have to move the .exe file or executable file to your compressed folder in order for you to be able to upload it as an attchment to your email as .zip file.

This data recovery function is not intended to substitute the daily backup. If you have important data on your laptop, you should backup the data daily. See knowledge base article 13 (www.lalarm.com/en/kb13.htm).

Also the knowledge base says you can use ftp (file transfer protocol) if you need to recover a large amount of data: (www.lalarm.com/en/KB9_Recover_Data_Laptop_Alarm.htm)

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:28:52 +0000

Assuming the need to do so for emergency issues arise, I assume that links would be made available to your email with the updated contents if the editing happened prior. Like what I’ve mentioned here, it would not be possible for them to send the file literally from the laptop to your email.

Data may be secured on a virtual server, I suspect. But I’ll try to dig in for answers regarding this from the developer.

By: Godwin

Godwin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:05:09 +0000

This is good innovation. But like Mathdelane I am wondering – If like me, you edit personal videos on your laptop. How soon will LAlarm have all of these video files moved to my mailbox?

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:27:44 +0000

That could be possible too. How much do you think it would cost?

By: refurbished laptops

refurbished laptops — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:36:46 +0000

Why not place a small gps tracker. This seems much better idea

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:05:46 +0000

I can only assume that the email feature would send some links containing the files instead of the files themselves. I can’t imagine huge amount of files being transferred to an email automatically.

I wish I could provide much detail on the email feature implementation but unfortunately a laptop is still on my wish list. I suppose you have a laptop so why not try downloading the software and find out, it’s free anyway.

By: Avery

Avery — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:12:31 +0000

Looks like a good idea, I'm a bit curious about their implementation. I mean it would be a shame if you inadvertently triggered the data deletion... I really wonder about the feature to email your data to you, that could be quite a big message. (Assuming the laptop has internet access at the time.) .-= Avery@ppt security´s last blog ..Blackberry Outage – Blackberry Internet Service spotty today =-.