COMPUTER AND MOBILE PHONE TRACKER
After yesterday's news flash about a guy who tracked down his stolen MacBook using an application that sends photos from one's laptop, as well as reporting the laptop's location, I wanted to remind everyone about a post I sent out probably a year ago.
There is an open-source and FREE application that will track your laptop or android-based phone. The application is called PREY and works on Windows, Apple, Linux computers, as well as Android-based phones. According to the website, they an app for the iPhone is still in development. Should any of these be stolen you can trace the location of the device as well as put a lojack on it.
In addition to installing the software on your computer or phone, you will have to set up an online account which is then used to administer tracking of you device should it get stolen. A free account will let you monitor up to three devices.
The software is available at:
http://preyproject.com/
MAC VIRUSES
Also, since there's been a lot of press about viruses for Mac computers, I just want to repeat what I've been saying from day one. Get virus protection for your Apple computers!!! If you are a home user there are a few free anti-virus applications out there.
I personally can only vouch for two. I have not tried any others.
These are Sophos and ClamXav.
Each can be obtained through the following links, respectively.
http://snipurl.com/27yi7x
http://www.clamxav.com/download.php
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