Insuring laptop?

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>Before we purchased my daughter's fancy new laptop the sales associate told me about an insurance that for about $19.99 per year would insure the laptop and had some kind of theft retrieval thing w/it, so that if it were stolen and once you report the theft it would activate something and when the computer was turned on it would take a picture of the culprit and then somehow be able to actually track the computer giving the student a far greater opportunity to recover both the computer and their schoolwork!</p>

<p>Has anyone heard of this? I can't remember what the insurance was called. Can anyone help me find this?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Wendy</p>

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<p>A good general article about software based laptop recovery tools (strengths and weaknesses), see:
<a href="http://www.stoptheft.com/site/news/news_fcw.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stoptheft.com/site/news/news_fcw.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Since that article was published, LoJack (used for locating stolen autos) has branched out to laptop recovery: <a href="http://www.lojackforlaptops.com/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lojackforlaptops.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Hope this is helpful...</p>