I figure this is the place for this since it is a secutiry question, mods feel free to move it if this belongs somewhere else
I am looking into the lojack for laptops program to protect some of the laptops we use at work and i am woundering how the program could survive a harddrive format and OS reinstall and still be able to regularly contact the server to report its localtion. i can understand a hidden partition but once the OS is blown away and the new OS loaded i would assume that its service status would be lost and the program would have to be manually restarted. kind of like how OEM systems have recovery partitions, but those are not run automatically and have to be manually booted off of. I am looking to possably use this product on several laptops but because they are on a domain i would assume if one got stolen the theif would fail at logging in due to the ctrl-alt-del to log in requirment and not having an obvious user list / guest account. so they would just reformat the machine and install a new os, in which that case the machine would never access the internet before the OS was wiped clean.
any further insight would be greatly appreciated.
I am looking into the lojack for laptops program to protect some of the laptops we use at work and i am woundering how the program could survive a harddrive format and OS reinstall and still be able to regularly contact the server to report its localtion. i can understand a hidden partition but once the OS is blown away and the new OS loaded i would assume that its service status would be lost and the program would have to be manually restarted. kind of like how OEM systems have recovery partitions, but those are not run automatically and have to be manually booted off of. I am looking to possably use this product on several laptops but because they are on a domain i would assume if one got stolen the theif would fail at logging in due to the ctrl-alt-del to log in requirment and not having an obvious user list / guest account. so they would just reformat the machine and install a new os, in which that case the machine would never access the internet before the OS was wiped clean.
any further insight would be greatly appreciated.