According to various surveys, 90% of laptops in India are stolen during travel. Worldwide, a laptop gets stolen every 12 seconds.
These figures are obviously alarming, and will only go up as laptop sales increase.
But the good thing is that IT industry has not leave any opportunity unexplored.
The solution to this is an Open Source Program. It enables you to map out your stolen laptop. And Adeona is one such Open Source solution.

Download it here

How to Use?

Installing Adeona is easy.
During installation it will ask for a password.
Remember the password carefully as it will be required when you try to retrieve position of your laptop.
Once installed Adeona will automatically start a background service.
By Default, the client sends update at randomly defined time, usually an update every 30 mins.
As the installation finishes it places an '.ost' file on the desktop.
This is the file you will need to determine the location of your laptop.
It's recommended to backup this file at a secure location away from your laptop.

Now to determine the location of the laptop, you would need to run Adeona Recovery Tools.
These tools are by default installed with the client, and can also be installed separately.
Once you run this tool, it will ask you for the '.ost' file and password for the file.
If authentication is successful, it will now coonect to its server and try to retrieve the last IP address from which Adeona client had sent the update.
Once it has retrieved the details, it will automatically save them on the desktop in a text file format.
This will include the last IP address and names of nearby routers if available.


Source: PCQuest