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Laptop theft tracking without a GPS or recovery program installed.?

Without a tracking program installed or GPS could the police locate a stolen laptop?

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  • 8 years ago
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    nop. they can trace someone using a computer but not a specific computer

    when police tracks someone that posted something online or someone doing something illegal online the are not tracking the computer it self. they track the ip address (Internet Protocol address) which changes when you connect to a different internet connection. for example the police can trace me right now and find mi location based on the fact that 1 i am online 2 they can find my location because my service provider knows my address and even if they did not know it they cpuld triangulate my location based on the satellites or antennas that i am connected to. now if i were to go home (i am at college now) mi IP would change and i could use a totally different user name like pear and they can track me yes but they dont know that "pear" is using the same laptop sephiroth was using in another town. so in short you can not track a laptop you can only track the connection a user is using

  • 5 years ago

    Effortless. Just reformat your difficult force. Reformatting will wipe the whole lot off of it and that also includes the viruses. Though it additionally involves your private files so that you have got to back these up before you reformat. Use a rough power enclosure and pull the documents you need, structure it, then reinstall the operating procedure. Difficult force enclosures bypass the operating procedure. Viruses run off the operating process. So you simply connect it, reproduction and paste the records you want, proper click on the rough power, format it, then reinstall the running method. Accomplished. For a tough pressure enclosure i exploit a bt-300 by means of topmicrousa which is really first-class. Its rapid and effortless to make use of. It sounds as if there isnt any difficult ware issues so reformatting will have to do it. When you have any further issues, shoot me an e-mail and in poor health be comfortable to help (^_^)/

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