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I bought an IBM T61 laptop in Jan 2010 from Ebay. I am not the original owner.

I'm trying to figure out if my laptop contains Computrace in its bios.

According the the Computrace website, the Lenovo T61 (which I assume includes a T61 with the IBM brand), is supposed to contain Computrace in its bios.

But my bios setup does not show any setting anwhere for Computrace including in the "security" settings area and that includes no setting to enable or disable Computrace.

How can I know for sure if my bios does or does not contain Computrace?

If a previous owner activated or disabled Computrace, would the Computrace settings disappear from bios setup?

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audioresearch wrote:I'm trying to figure out if my laptop contains Computrace in its bios.

No, it doesn't contain " Computrace", but it will have the ability to support Intel's AMT technology (if you choose to enable it), which is what Computrace Lo-Jack uses to provide its service.

However, before getting too enthusiastic about the Lo-jack service, you might want to read some reviews.....

http://www.amazon.com/Computrace-LoJack ... B000BRCZZK

http://cryptome.org/lojack-hack.pdf

Cheers,

Bill B.

There is code in the BIOS to support computrace, but you need to buy a sunscription from absolute software to turn it on. You will need to run something from them to activate. Once activated, it can only be deactivated by them.

Also, the whole "re-installs itself when the OS is re-installed, etc." pitch is only true if the thief installs Windows.

So... you know... if Stallman steals your ThinkPad you're screwed.