This is a free service from Quick Heal, internet security provider. Whether you use or not using quick heal products, you can register your laptop and can track, if it stolen. This site even provide you facilities to identify, whether the second hand laptop you are going to purchase is a stolen one and Cyber Crime Law Enforcement Authority can trace stolen notebook. All you want to do the following steps.
1. Go to track my laptop site and select your desired option. There will be 4 options you can see. First one for Quick Heal users, second one for non-Quick Heal users, third one to verify a Used Laptop and the final one is for Enforcement Authority.
2. Here, I selected "Not a Quick Heal User" option. Register yourself. You will get a MAC identification tool to identify your MAC address. Download the tool and run it, it will show your MAC address. If you are using any VMWare virtual interface, the third MAC address will be that one and it will be common across all computers. If you enter this, it may show you an error that "This MAC id is already in database". Do not panic, it is VMWare interface and common for all.
3. Now click the check button to agree terms and conditions and click register button.
4. You have successfully registered.
Cons: As per Quick Heal, this service is now only for India laptop users. But there are more negative points for this service. If a buyer buys a new laptop, nowhere in the bill it records the MAC address. Most of the buyers don't know what is MAC address and won't be bothered to record this. If the laptop is stolen and those who stolen register this site as their own and later the original user trying to register, it will show as "This MAC id is already in database". How the original owner can proove himself/herself that this is his notebook? He only have the bill and the bill contains only the name of make, model and some people record the serial number. If serial number available, then there is something hope. What if no serial number in the bill? Another question to think, what if the stolen user is not going to register the MAC id in this site? There is a visible loop hole in this site that, it says you immediately, while trying to register, "The MAC id is already in database". This can prevent those new users from registering and being caught.
Overall, there are more negative points than positive. But this is a free service, so there might have limited service like this.
1. Go to track my laptop site and select your desired option. There will be 4 options you can see. First one for Quick Heal users, second one for non-Quick Heal users, third one to verify a Used Laptop and the final one is for Enforcement Authority.
2. Here, I selected "Not a Quick Heal User" option. Register yourself. You will get a MAC identification tool to identify your MAC address. Download the tool and run it, it will show your MAC address. If you are using any VMWare virtual interface, the third MAC address will be that one and it will be common across all computers. If you enter this, it may show you an error that "This MAC id is already in database". Do not panic, it is VMWare interface and common for all.
3. Now click the check button to agree terms and conditions and click register button.
4. You have successfully registered.
Cons: As per Quick Heal, this service is now only for India laptop users. But there are more negative points for this service. If a buyer buys a new laptop, nowhere in the bill it records the MAC address. Most of the buyers don't know what is MAC address and won't be bothered to record this. If the laptop is stolen and those who stolen register this site as their own and later the original user trying to register, it will show as "This MAC id is already in database". How the original owner can proove himself/herself that this is his notebook? He only have the bill and the bill contains only the name of make, model and some people record the serial number. If serial number available, then there is something hope. What if no serial number in the bill? Another question to think, what if the stolen user is not going to register the MAC id in this site? There is a visible loop hole in this site that, it says you immediately, while trying to register, "The MAC id is already in database". This can prevent those new users from registering and being caught.
Overall, there are more negative points than positive. But this is a free service, so there might have limited service like this.
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