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Re: [CNN] Stolen Laptops and lame 'solution'
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In <[email protected]>, on 06/12/97
at 07:50 AM, "David E. Smith" <[email protected]> said:
>On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Raymond Mereniuk wrote:
>> This has been discussed on this list before, about 1 year ago. The
>> Computrace software is installed on a place on the hard drive where
>> DOS utilities like Fdisk and Format can not get at it. This is the
>> same as Diskmanager Version 7 or higher, Fdisk and Format will not
>> remove this version of Diskmanager.
>There you go, assuming DOS is the centre of the universe again. I haven't
>seen this, but there's a pretty good chance that reformatting the hard
>disk as a Linux partition and installing LILO would clean that nuisance
>right up. (If it didn't, you could probably just use your favorite disk
>editor to find the Computrace code and zero it out.)
>OC this is all above the means of the average laptop thief, but the
>dedicated ones probably have a staff techie.
I would imagine that some enterprising programmer will write a program
that removes this crap from the users HD.
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