However, Awareness' product comes in the clear price/performance winner if you want proactivemonitoring and recovery of your laptops in a corporate environment – which is where Awareness Technologies' product is targeted.

While it's possible to get 'most' of the features of a commercial-grade product from something which targets consumers, it's important to remember that there are many issues confronting business data security – including the recovery of the asset, and the prosecution of those responsible. Often, insurance requirements will demand this.

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Even deleting things will only mark the content as “deleted,” but the content remains until it is overwritten by another file. That overwriting is a random event. If the header has not been overwritten, the content of the file can be recovered to the degree that a given segment of that content was not overwritten.

The best practice is not put things like account numbers on your machine. If you use your computer that way, by all means protect your machine. Given the falling prices, these extra services will exceed the price of the machine very early in the life of your machine. The value of the machine itself will fall while your valuation of that machine increases as your content accumulates on the machine.

Peggy you may also want to look at this page regarding privacy:
http://gadgettrak.com/products/pc/privacy/