Hello! I bought a new laptop and there is some software and I guess hardware too from the company called Absolute Software. After some research I came to conclusion that it is some kind of tracking pre-installed by the retailer. Can I get rid of it somehow?
The use of jammers is one of many measures that the IB and the Inter-Agency Council against Trafficking are planning to implement in the midst of the reported increase in cases of trafficking of Filipinos abroad.
The IB stopped using the equipment, purchased by the office during the previous administration, after the airlines and other airport stakeholders protested the jammers.
The property section of the office has been ordered to obtain the necessary license from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to re-operate the NAIA cell phone jammers as soon as possible, he said.
The first option is called Locate. After receiving the LoJack signal from the laptop this feature allows user to find the location of your laptop with the help of GPS, WiFi and IP address of the laptop that it gets when it is online. Delete is the second option and it allows user to delete any unencrypted data on your laptop if there is such need. The third option is called Lock and, as you have probably already guessed, it allows user to lock your laptop remotely and completely, absolutely preventing its usage. The last one is called Recover and it is used as the proof that the user is the owner of the laptop when it is located by the first feature.
So, if the retailer has not informed you about that software and hardware and did not give you the login and password for this then your laptop might be in great danger, so as you. In order to prevent possible consequences you can stop LoJack tracker in your laptop, preventing its signal from reaching the website of Absolute Software. But if you want to avoid just location tracking, you can use multifrequency desktop jammer for that purpose.