Protect your laptop NOW!

The cost of a laptop, whilst significant, is just the start of what the cost of losing it through theft could add up to. Think about the cost of the additional software you've installed, the value of the data you've created to you or others, or even just the inconvenience of not having it any more.

Security of data in any organisation should be of the highest priority, your business relies on information that is specific to you. Many business owners or staff carry that data around with them on password protected laptops but is password protection enough? Wouldn't you rather get your laptop back?

Now your thinking ok, what's this going to cost me. NCI is committed to providing you with the best service we can and without your laptop we can't give you service so we are recommending you install the software below for FREE. You can even install it on 2 other laptops for free and that is forever, the beauty of open source software. If you want any more than that protected there is a professional fee which gives you added features and you can pay monthly or annually.

So what do you get for free? Well in all honesty, probably your laptop back. Press coverage on how you single handedly combated crime in your area and the warm feeling that one more crime has been solved.

Prey works on any make laptop with a wireless connection, if you have a built in webcam then all the better. You can be in any country in the world and the software will work within 20 minutes of you marking it missing.

What you will get in the free version:

• a report on where your laptop is via geolocation on Google maps
• photo's of the person in front of the webcam
• screenshots of the desktop (where you may find them logging on to facebook or other identifiable means)
• the ability to lock your data, publish warnings to the thief and sound alarms on the laptop

The user doesn't need to be logged on to the laptop for you to get the reports however it may be wise to have a none administrative guest account with no password to fool the thief into accessing the internet and therefore possibly allowing the opportunity to get their private data. You can also add a BIOS password and disable booting from removable devices on PCs so that the thief will be forced to boot into the previous installation and therfore not be able to format your hard disk easily.

If you have a Mac, there’s a firmware password utility on your Mac OS installation DVD. You can find it in Applications/Utilities on the disc. Yes, this software also works on Macs (not iphones or ipads yet)

So don't delay, install Prey now and protect your laptops data in the event of a theft.

Prey 0.5.3 for Windows

Prey 0.5.3 for Ubuntu

Prey 0.5.3 for Android

Prey 0.5.3 for Mac os

Prey 0.5.3 for Linux

Prey, a project by Fork Ltd.. The name and logo for Prey are registered trademarks of Fork Ltd.