At 05:22 PM 6/11/97 +0000, Raymond Mereniuk wrote:

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The call goes to a Canadian office that in turn phones the cops. So far, it has a 100 percent recovery rate.

====== 100% of WHAT? Systems with it installed which are stolen? How would you know what systems do NOT call in? It's like the question the clerk asks at the airport: "Did anyone put anything in your luggage you don't know anything about?"

Now that the word is out, of course, the wily thief will eschew pluggin in until the hard drive is reformatted and installed with a clean OS. As usual: the stupid will be caught.

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.

Unless you overwrite the MBR and the first TRACK on the disk. Well, the bar is raised by about 3 minutes with DEBUG, thanks.