Comments on: What To Do When Your Laptop Is Stolen

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:37:57 +0000

I bought Laptop Cop and they remotely installed it. I attempted to use Laptop Cop but had to call for support. They have no phone support and insist on Live-Chat. I tried live-chat and they said it was busy and to try again later. I tried again and the live chat session kept crashing on their end. Had my computer been stolen it would have taken days trying to communicate the stolen computer with Laptop Cop . I asked for my money back, Laptop Cop told me how to uninstall it but Laptop Cop refused to refund my money. Laptop Cop said it was past the 3 days and didn’t care it was due to their live chat crashing.

Laptop Cop cannot be relied upon in a crisis like a laptop being stolen.

By: Blackwo

Blackwo — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:02:21 +0000

hey thanks for this blog post. My laptop and Zune were just stolen and this was helpful…

By: jojocaty1990

jojocaty1990 — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:08:27 +0000

lolz my laptop was stolen and i was frowning for 2 weeks bcuz of that!! i din’t tell the police but i was dump enough to forget it on one of the seats of the car that drives me to and back from college.. so mine was vista home primuem do u think ther is a way to get it back? i got anew laptop and my brother is waiting for my old laptop so he can take the new one!!

By: Student Laptop Security

Student Laptop Security — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:37:54 +0000

Lots of great advice. Laptop tracking software is definitely a smart investment. You can never be too safe these days. Check out our website for more information on how to protect your laptop at school.

By: Nonchalant Savant

Nonchalant Savant — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:29:05 +0000

A buddy of mine told me about a program called “Laptop Cop.” From what I understand about it, one of the key features is that if your laptop is stolen, it will notify you when the thief has logged onto the internet so that firstly you can download important files from it. Evidently it runs in the background so that the thief is unaware that this is happening. I believe it has some sort of tracking capability as well.

By: Jonah Stein

Jonah Stein — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:48:00 +0000

Backup in the cloud!

Extra hard drive copies are pretty cool, but nothing like having your computer remember to back up for you any time it finds a network connection!

Carbonite.com and backblaze.com are both cheaper than extra hard drives and let you recover anytime, anywhere, even from a total disaster like a fire.

By: Gleb Budman

Gleb Budman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:15:12 +0000

Lisa, I’m sorry about your loss and wanted to let you know you’re not alone. We found that 94% of people do not do regular backups and nearly 1 of 2 people lose data every year.

I would like to recommend our service, Backblaze, for you and your readers. It costs just $5/month and automatically backs up all your data online (including connected external drives.) And, the key thing is, it takes just a minute to get started. Try it free: http://www.backblaze.com

Gleb Budman
CEO, Bakblaze

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:11:43 +0000

Want to learn a new way to backup the data to S3? Try CloudBerry Backup. It is powered by Amazon S3 reliable and cost efficient storage. If you want to take part in beta sign up on the website http://cloudberrydrive.com What safer place to keep your files than Amazon’s servers?

By: Pat Berry

Pat Berry — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:58:55 +0000

Regarding encryption options: TrueCrypt is a free, open-source application for securely encrypting your data. It’s easy to use, very effective, and uncrackable if you use a strong password. It’s available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. (I’m not affiliated with the project in any way; I just use it and like it.)

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Netmeg: Your backup practices sound very sensible, but instead of buying individual external hard drives for each computer you own, why not buy a Drobo and back up ALL your machines to it? It uses RAID technology, so even if one of the physical drives in the Drobo fails, you don’t lose any data. (I’m not affiliated with them either.)

http://drobo.com/

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:35:40 +0000

Horrrible thing to happen! But it’s good that you use the experience to warn others on how to be prepared … I think I now have a new checklists of things I should do.