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Because the pop-up does not appear on my TP right now. but case B is odd because it's already live, inasmuch as it has already messed up with my HD and OS files to do the check! Therefore some TP have an inactive CT in BIOS, some have an active CT.īut in what condition does the pop-up appears?ī) If there's an active CT AND it has phoned home and reported it should go live?
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I'm sorry, but I still don't get it fully.ġ- To make the online check, CT first needs to install the files on the HD and run.Ģ- To do so, it needs to be active in the BIOS to start with.ģ- But the CT code is present in all vaguely recent TPs's BIOS, even if "dormant". But this need to be checked I can't confirm now.
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Then you need to secure erase / wipe the SDD/HDD - and you will WIPE all the space (there will be no more HPA, and these sectors will be available for wipe /usage )Īnd hdd will be free from computrace and you can put in other system.Īlso if there is no HPA, probably computrace will be not able to install in your OS. (permanently (!) set max visible number of sectors, see example above) ( where X is your HDD letter), output is : So you need to check if HPA is enabled or disabled, here is the command ( you can use parted magic) : So if the drive is wiped or even secure erased this sh!t stays until you remove HPA from your HDD/SDD ( where computrace is located on the hdd ). The host protected area (HPA) is an area of a hard drive or solid-state drive that is not normally visible to an operating system. HPA is useful to them because even when a stolen laptop has its hard drive formatted the HPA remains untouched."
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For example, the laptop security firm Computrace use the HPA to load software that reports to their servers whenever the machine is booted on a network. "HPA is also used by various theft recovery and monitoring service vendors. See what I found in several sources ( including Wikipedia) :
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\rpcnetĢ. One of the following registry keys exist:ġ. The system connects to the following IP: 209.53.113.223ĥ. The system resolves one of the following domain names using DNS:ħ. Note: on a 64-bit OS the above files can be found in: %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\ģ. %WINDIR%\System32\autochk.exe:bak (for NTFS) One of the following files exist on the hard drive:Ħ. 32-bit svchost.exe running on 64-bit system (can’t serve as complete indicator)Ģ. One of the following processes is running:ģ.
LoJack), so I got rid of it in no time.īut herewith you are WARNED TO NOT EVER put in a HD/SSD from a Computrace-activated laptop in any other machine!Ĭode: Select all Indicators of Computrace Agent Activityġ.
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Luckily I know how to kill Computrace (a.k.a. When I installed this T400 HD as a test-HD in my new T601 Frankie, it created havoc in the T601 innards and put in an activated Computrace in the BIOS! WTF? These files make a call to at every fresh computer start.
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Upon checking that T400, I found that Computrace was ENabled, but NOT activated.Īpparently that is enough to install the rpcnet*.* files in Windows or Linux! That T400 has Anti-Theft settings in BIOS, including Computrace (not available in T61). The HD I used for testing this Frankie came from a T400 I have.
In the T61 BIOS there are no settings for Computrace, so what had happened?Īfter a lot of investigation I found this: If above picture/link fails, see instead. To make sure, I had removed the HD, battery and AC were in, just wanted to check the BIOS settings before shipping.Īll alarm bells went ringing when I went into the BIOS and saw this Computrace warning: Then today (Monday morning) I was ready to pack up this T601FL and ship it out to its new owner. On Friday last week I finished my testing, which was still all OK as far as I knew. However, I hadn't gone into the BIOS again, since I had no need for checking/changing anything there, yet. When I put in Middleton's BIOS I had no problems either.Įverything was hunky-dory, UNTIL I put in one of my test-HDs with W7-Pro.Ĭhecking the functionality of the new Frankie went without a hitch and I had a test-run of almost 24 hours.Ĭhecked it again the next day to start charging the battery, still no problem. When I used the HDM to put in TYPE, S/N and UUID I had no problems either. I just put a new T61 mobo from TuuS in a T60 chassis, to create my Frankie #74 (I kid you not!).ĭuring installation last week of this new mobo with nVidia NVS140M chip from 2010 I had no problems. Today I was absolutely stumped by seeing a warning in a T61 BIOS that Computrace was active!
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