Notebook owners often pay a heavy
price for the freedom and flexibility a notebook grants them. In a
nutshell, the problem is grand theft notebook. According to zTrace
Technologies, more than 300,000 notebooks were stolen last year. zTrace
Gold is a software package you install on your notebook that operates in
stealth mode in case your notebook is taken.
A casual perusal of
your hard drive won’t turn up any signs of the program. During routine
use, when you connect to the Internet with the notebook, a signal is sent
to zTrace’s monitoring facility. If someone absconds with your notebook,
you notify zTrace. The company waits until the perpetrator connects to the
Internet. If the thief is connected to a LAN, an IP address for the
notebook is sent to zTrace. If connected to a phone line (or broadband or
wireless connection), zTrace will dial the command center where caller ID
will capture the phone number. Armed with this phone number (or
information about the owner of the network the miscreants are using),
zTrace’s Recovery Team coordinates the retrieval of your notebook with
local law enforcement. Think of it as the computer equivalent of
______.
zTrace guarantees that if your notebook is stolen, it will
locate it within 30 days or it will refund your fee. The problem with
zTrace and similar applications is twofold. First, there’s an annual
$49.95 fee. Most homeowners can add a rider to an insurance policy to
cover computer gear for far less. The same applies to most businesses. The
second issue is that although zTrace is
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