User: princessofgeeks Date: 2011-07-04 21:23 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

*hugs*

User: marahmarie Date: 2011-07-05 02:58 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

So (I never forget anything, sorry) did Prey ever come back to life for you before the laptop was fixed? Ever find out why it was unresponsive? Glad to hear it's back - hopefully, with that, we'll hear more from you now. :)

Edited 2011-07-05 02:59 am (UTC)

User: sophie Date: 2011-07-05 03:52 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Well, Prey was still active on the laptop when I got it, and it sent out a report about 10-15 minutes after I logged into it. (By that time I had already marked the laptop as back on the Prey site so it never showed up there, but I do know it went out because I was watching the network activity using Wireshark and saw it go out.)

So that gives two reasons; firstly, they might not have turned it on on a network which had Internet access, which I would think would be quite likely. Second, they might not have had it on long enough for the report to be compiled and sent. (One of the things Prey can do, which I have enabled, is to tell you what files have been modified in the last <x> minutes, and that involves a scan of the whole hard drive, which can take some time.)

I might turn off the hard drive scan feature because of the delay involved, actually. That said, it could potentially still be useful, so I'm not sure. I guess if the laptop had an SSD instead of a normal hard drive it would be a no-brainer since SSDs are so much faster than normal hard drives...