If you use this
software your stolen Computer/Laptop will find you!
Homing
Pigeon (TM)
The lost or stolen PC
"email home" program you've heard about.
Go
to Burns Consulting for a
free copy
When properly
installed and configured, Homing Pigeon (TM) starts every time
the machine is booted. It waits until it senses that a valid
TCP/IP connection to a network has been made, either through
the dialup networking or a LAN. It then queries its
surroundings to determine if it can contact the SMTP server
that the user specified in the "SMTP Server" box
during its configuration. If it can contact that SMTP server,
then it attempts to send a mail message to the address
specified during its configuration in the "Your email
address" box, emailing you its network location (IP
Address and if possible, the reverse lookup for that IP
address). If it cannot contact the SMTP server specified in
the "SMTP Server" box, then it probes the network
looking for alternative ways to send its network location
email message. If it succeeds in mailing you such a message,
the route information specified in the email header can
sometimes be used to help locate the machine.
Key Benefits
- For example, if your
machine were moved to some other location, and someone
used the dialup networking to connect to their Internet
Service Provider (ISP), if Homing Pigeon’s boot message
gets to you, the header information will tell you where
they logged in, and at what time. That ISP’s log records
can provide Law Enforcement Agencies with the identity of
their customer who was logged in. (This assumes of course,
they did not log into YOUR account. So think twice before
checking the "remember password" box on your
dialup network login.)
- Another example might
be if your machine were moved to some other location, and
someone connected it to a LAN running TCP/IP protocalls
(most LANs these days do), if Homing Pigeon’s boot
message gets to you, the header information will tell you
where they logged in, and at what time. The subnet the IP
address belongs to will localize the location of the
machine to a building or two, which again can assist Law
Enforcement Agencies with locating the machine.
- It's Free
Go
to Burns Consulting to
download
While Homing Pigeon (TM)
has been tested on a number of machines, we also add the usual
weasel words that we are not responsible for the accuracy of
this program, its working correctly on your or anyone else's
machine, nor for errors in the program.
Homing Pigeon (TM) is
Shareware, so while you may try it for free for up to 30 days,
if you want to use it indefinitely, please register the
program.
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