If the owner however does not want this enabled then with the pass phrase we should be able to disable this. Why not password protect the feature? If someone steals the computer then they will be unlikely to know the password if the owner wants the spyware enabled. It is hard to believe that the owner of the property has no ability to disable this. It is different to anything I have ever seen. Leveraging the same Absolute persistence technology used in Computrace® LoJack® for Laptops, the solution cannot be removed by a factory reset once the app is installed by the user and activated. The fact that it cannot be removed is extremely concerning. We really need to get the word out there so people understand what is going on. By all accounts our computers are open to anyone at Absolute which puts us in a very bad situation as we are expressly forbidden from this. We have a lot of client confidential information that we are required by law to protect. We never consented to having this invasive technology installed and what gives Absolute the legal right to remotely change our computers permanently? I am now seeing this piece of software calling home every single day. I have recently noticed this spyware on our companies machines. In addition to the picture on top of this blog post, here are a few more pictures from a Lenovo Thinkpad T420S BIOS that has the Computrace agent embedded in firmware, and activated:Īnd to prove it working, here is a screenshot showing properties for rpcnet.exe, one out of several files that mysteriously appeared in a clean Windows 7 圆4 setup shortly after installation:
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That's a good thing from a corporate security perspective when a laptop is lost/stolen it can be tracked and monitored to recover the computer and catch the bad guys.įurthermore, again according to their own documentation, the agent firmware will install itself into your Windows XP/Vista/7/server installation automatically, and within minutes after installing Windows. According to Absolute, their agent firmware is persistent to BIOS flashing, resetting and more. They do it in such way that flashing your BIOS won't remove it.
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