-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.LNX.3.96.970612074651.9609A-100000@bureau42.ml.org>, on 06/12/97 at 07:50 AM, "David E. Smith" <dave@bureau42.ml.org> said:
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Raymond Mereniuk wrote:
This has been discussed on this list before, about 1 year ago. The Computrace software is installed on a place on the hard drive where DOS utilities like Fdisk and Format can not get at it. This is the same as Diskmanager Version 7 or higher, Fdisk and Format will not remove this version of Diskmanager.
There you go, assuming DOS is the centre of the universe again. I haven't seen this, but there's a pretty good chance that reformatting the hard disk as a Linux partition and installing LILO would clean that nuisance right up. (If it didn't, you could probably just use your favorite disk editor to find the Computrace code and zero it out.)
OC this is all above the means of the average laptop thief, but the dedicated ones probably have a staff techie.
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