How to find your stolen/lost laptop

Friends as modernization is on its peak. Everybody nowadays are using Laptop, PDA, iPhone etc and chances of theft is also increasing. So, how to keep your Laptop, PDA, iPhones etc secure. I had found a Open Source Software 'Adeona' which can keep track of your laptop. If your laptop is stolen or lost you can easily trace its location and also catch the thief.

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Adeona is a open source system which keep track of your lost and stolen laptop. It uses the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. Its Mac OS Ver has built-in iSight camera which captures the image of the thief if camera is available in laptop. One bad thing is that your laptop require a internet connection to upload all its information to the server. Location information include the update time, laptop internal/external ip address, access point to which it is connected ,nearest router etc .It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Steps how to find the stolen/lost laptop:

• Just download and install it in your laptop.
• Remember the password you given during installation. It will be required during retrieval of information regarding your laptop location.
• Keep 'adeona-retrievecredentials.ost' in a safe place because it will be required during retrieval process. You will find this file in desktop and also in under program files 'C:\Program Files\Adeona'.
  
• TESTING (not stolen) : For retrieval of information from the server start the 'Run Adeona Recovery' program from your computer if you just want to test the application.
  
• LAPTOP STOLEN: Install the Adeona software in any other laptop and start 'Run Adeona Recovery' program from their if your laptop is stolen.
  
• Enter the password given during the installation of the software in your laptop. Locate the 'adeona-retrievecredentials.ost' file of your laptop , I have told you to keep that is a safer place in previous instruction and start the process.
• After that a file 'adeona_retrieve_results.txt' will be created upon completion of the retrieval process in your desktop under 'adeonaretrieval-08-26-2009-1653' folder. '08-26-2009-1653' in folder name refers to the date and time of retrieval process completion. So it may change in your case.

I had tested this software its really working. Below is the information, I have got during my testing of the software. Below is the format that you will also get in adeona_retrieve_results.txt :-

• info: ========== START STATE RETRIEVE ==========
  info: state updatetime: 08/26/2009,16:42 (IST)
  info: succesfully retrieved update replica 0
  info: ======== start location data =========
  update time: 08/26/2009,16:42 (IST)
  internal ip: 120.13.420.217 //your IP Address
  external ip: 120.13.420.217
  access point: technozonebiti //acess point to which your laptop is connected
  Nearby routers:
  1 0.000ms 120.13.420.1 (techcablesystem.in)
  2 0.000ms 120.13.420.1 (could not resolve)
  3 1.000ms 129.160.7.153 (could not resolve)
  4 16.000ms 123.210.167.29 (could not resolve)
  5 181.000ms 213.228.88.201 (ldn-b2-link.telia.net)
  6 180.000ms 80.91.252.9 (ldn-bb1-link.telia.net)
  7 181.000ms 80.91.254.209 (prs-bb1-link.telia.net)
  8 203.000ms 80.91.249.112 (zch-b1-link.telia.net)
  9 203.000ms 213.248.79.190 (dante-01287-zch-b1.c.telia.net)
  10 195.000ms 130.59.36.42 (swiIX2-10GE-4-4.switch.ch)
  11 199.000ms 130.59.36.249 (swiEZ2-10GE-1-3.switch.ch)
  12 207.000ms 192.33.92.161 (rou-open-net-switch.ethz.ch)
  info: ========= end location data ==========

Description of the above statements. In the above statements you will find update time,internal ip, external ip and nearest router details.

• Update Time: The time when your laptop information is being send to the server.
• Internal IP: IP address is being assigned to your laptop by the ISP (Internet Service Provider) when the laptop was connected to the internet.
• External IP: IP address is being assigned to your laptop by the ISP (Internet Service Provider) when the laptop was connected to the internet. Basically internal and external both are same.
• Access Point: The access point used to connect your laptop to internet.
• Nearby Routers: The routers that are nearer to the internet network your laptop is connected to.
  

To trace the IP Address location:

• Just put the Internal Ip you got from the adeona_retrieve_results.txt file into the text field below and click search, you will get the details of the ip address along with a map or search the ip address with any ip geolocation service to retrieve the location of ip address from where your stolen laptop is being connected to internet.

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By the help of this open source software you will easily trace your laptop location. If exact location cannot be found, atleast you have an idea about the locality where you will find your laptop. After that you may contact cops for catching the thief.

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How to trace and visualize your current location in maps

Here is small Web Application for tracing your present location. Actually it trace your internet protocol address, mac address and rfid (radio frequency identification) and map it with the geolocation database. After successful mapping it will find out the current latitude and longitude of the computer or mobile. By the help of Google Maps API it will display your location on Google Maps.

Below is a button 'Trace My Location' just click on the button. A new page will open and display all your data country, region, city, zip-code, latitude and longitude with Google Maps.


Click the button 'Trace My Location' below to trace your present location

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How to trace email sender Ip address and location

You must be thinking of how to know friend's IP Address or email sender IP Address. or the Sender ip address of spam mails. So that you can hack his/her computer or track his/her location. So here is a method to know the Ip Address from emails that you have received from your friends.

If you browse to the last of the article. I have done little scripting to trace the location of any ip address with goggle maps. Jump to the section

For GMail Users:

1. Go to Inbox.
2. Open the mail whose sender's IP Address you want to know.
3. In top-right corner of the mail there is Reply button and a arrow button pointing downwards.
4. Click on the arrow button and select 'Show original' from there.
5. A new window will open showing the source code of your mail.
6. Press Ctrl and F shortcut for Find.
   
7. If you have got the mail from yahoo. Type 'Received: from [' without quotes & press enter.
8. You will get a string like this 'Received: from [104.133.40.109] by web95204.mail.in2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:38:48 IST'.
9. The number between the square bracket is the IP Address of the sender. for eg here in my case this number '104.133.40.109' is the sender IP Address from whom i have got the mail.
10. If you have got the mail from hotmail. Type ''X-Originating-IP: [' in the find text box.
11. You will get a string like this 'X-Originating-IP: [104.103.42.155]'. The number between the square bracket is the IP Address of the sender.
12. If you have got the mail from rediffmail.com. Search for a string like this 'Received: from unknown 122.121.420.27 by rediffmail.com via HTTP; 22 Aug 2009 17:55:30 -0000'. The number between the square bracket is the IP Address of the sender.

For Yahoo Users:

1. Go to your Inbox.
2. Open the mail whose sender's IP Address you want to know.
3. In yahoo classsic mode. In the bottom right corner of the mail there is a link 'Full Header'. Click on it.
4. In yahoo upgraded mode. It is at the top right corner of the mail a compact header/standard header will be there. Click on that and select Full Header.
5. A new window will open showing the source code of your mail.
6. Press Ctrl and F shortcut for Find, otherwise go to Edit->Find.
   
7. If you have got the mail from yahoo. Type 'Received: from [' without quotes. Search a string having this format as given in the example eg: 'Received: from [188.20.227.238] by web94801.mail.in2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:14:16 IST'.The address between the square bracket is the ip address of the sender.
8. If you have got the mail from hotmail/msn. Search a string like this 'X-Originating-IP: [104.103.42.155]'. You may get many X-Originating-IP but the last one in the list is the required sender ip address. If you get only one its ok that is the required address. The address between the square bracket is the ip address of the sender.
9. If you have got the mail from rediffmail.com. Search for a string like this 'Received: from unknown 122.121.420.27 by rediffmail.com via HTTP; 22 Aug 2009 17:55:30 -0000'. The number between the square bracket is the IP Address of the sender.

For Hotmail Users:

1. Go to your Inbox.
2. Open the mail whose sender's IP Address you want to know.
3. Right click on the mail in the list and select View message source.
4. A new window will open showing the source code of your mail.
5. Press Ctrl and F shortcut for Find, otherwise go to Edit->Find.
6. If you have got the mail from yahoo. Type 'Received: from [' without quotes. Search a string having this format as given in the example eg: 'Received: from [188.20.227.238] by web94801.mail.in2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:14:16 IST'.The address between the square bracket is the ip address of the sender.
7. If you have got the mail from hotmail/msn. Search a string like this 'X-Originating-IP: [104.103.42.155]'. You may get many X-Originating-IP but the last one in the list is the required sender ip address. If you get only one its ok that is the required address. The address between the square bracket is the ip address of the sender.
8. If you have got the mail from rediffmail.com. Search for a string like this 'Received: from unknown 122.121.420.27 by rediffmail.com via HTTP; 22 Aug 2009 17:55:30 -0000'. The number between the square bracket is the IP Address of the sender.

Guys If you have got a mail from GMail you cant trace the sender Ip Address. Google says

Protecting our users' privacy is something we take very seriously. IP addresses can be considered sensitive information. As such, sender IP address information is not displayed in Gmail outgoing mail headers.
Don't worry -- we aren't enabling spammers to abuse the system by not revealing IP addresses. Gmail uses many innovative spam filtering mechanisms to ensure that spammers have a difficult time sending bulk emails that arrive in users inboxes.
[link to the above statement]

TRACE IP ADDRESS AND GEO LOCATION ON MAP :

• Enter the IP Address of the email sender or anybody to detect the location of that IP Address and click on 'Search Sender Location'.
• If you want to know your own ip address location just click on 'Trace Own Location'.
  

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