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2. Prey (software) - Wikipedia

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   Prey is a software and online platform for mobile device tracking, management, and protection available for laptops, tablets, and mobiles.The software and service is developed by the Chilean company Prey Inc., successor of the funding company Fork Ltd.

3. GadgetTrak - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] [3] The company was founded in February 2007 by Ken Westin [4] with the launch of the first theft recovery product for USB mass storage devices, tracking stolen devices including iPods, flash drives, digital cameras and other devices when connected to a computer. [5] [6] [7] The company was issued a patent for the technology on February ...

4. Absolute Home & Office - Wikipedia

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   The Absolute Home & Office client has trojan and rootkit-like behaviour, but some of its modules have been whitelisted by several antivirus vendors. [6] [8]At the Black Hat Briefings conference in 2009, researchers showed that the implementation of the Computrace/LoJack agent embedded in the BIOS has vulnerabilities and that this "available control of the anti-theft agent allows a highly ...

5. Follow These Steps if You’ve Been Hacked

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   Anti-virus protection software is disabled without your knowledge; Your mouse is randomly opening software or files without you directing it; Any of these scenarios can be scary if they happen to you.

6. Phoning home - Wikipedia

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   In computing, phoning home is a term often used to refer to the behavior of security systems that report network location, username, or other such data to another computer. Phoning home may be useful for the proprietor in tracking a missing or stolen computer. In this way, it is frequently performed by mobile computers at corporations.

7. Device tracking software - Wikipedia

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   Device tracking software is software installed in an electronic device that is capable of reporting the device's location remotely. Depending upon the software and the device on which it is installed, the software may obtain the location of the device by means of GPS, WiFi-location, IP address, or accelerometer logs, and it may report the address by means of e-mail, SMS, or other means.