JG42122
07-02-2009, 05:03 PM
I run a pc repair shop and we repair laptops and pcs for people in our community 90% of the ones we fix are Dells because they are worthless, but thanks to Dell I have a job.:p
Some time last year around October I received a laptop from a customer the hard drive was dead on it, and I hooked up my portable hard drive, booted windows and checked it for any problems system wise it had none. Then I did a complete reinstall of windows on the previous Hd and it worked fine. I gave the laptop back to the client and that was the end of that or so I thought.
The laptop was stolen and it had low jack installed on the BIOS of the laptop. When I booted the laptop from my portable hard drive it reinstalled low jack in to my main computer database. For those of you who do not know what low jack is it is a system used by the police that comes installed in the bios of most newer dell pc's if a laptop is stolen and the hd is wiped clean it automatically rewrites itself onto the new hard drive through the bios. Low jack then spreads through the pc and signals the authorities of your ip address your system it gives them access to every file screen shot and even keystroke you make.
So I find out that for the last year this low jack company has had access to every thing I have done online every time I plugged in my external hard drive to my computer. They have been monitoring my emails all of my passwords everything. The cops come and obviously their is no computer here but low jack is still pinging my ip address saying that it is connected to my system.
Honestly I am not even for sure now if it has not somehow spread to my main pc as well, nor if it even came from the customer above because we work on so many of them , we also get in mother boards from everywhere I have about 30 different ones and if a Motherboard is broke we scrap them, strip them for every part we can and then trash them if it works we build laptops out of them so it could be on any one of them.
I have explained this all to the authorities and they knew I had a computer company because they have been reading all my emails for the last year but they are still giving me the old "well you better figure out who you got the motherboard , or laptop from between august to October of last year or we will charge you with receiving stolen property" and their is no way these things come from flea markets, pawn shops, yard sales, everywhere and when you go pick up ten mother boards every couple weeks you eventually end up with so many that you have absolutely no idea where they come from.
So what should I do first off I took everything I had to their office and they have no way of running the tags on all the boards, and chips I have they did look at the serial numbers I have on the laptops.
Second, How do I even figure out where this low jack crap is to trash it ? Or do I need to destroy everything pc related in my home which could ruin my business .
Third do I have any shot at seeking any type of law suit against these guys for invasion of privacy?
Some time last year around October I received a laptop from a customer the hard drive was dead on it, and I hooked up my portable hard drive, booted windows and checked it for any problems system wise it had none. Then I did a complete reinstall of windows on the previous Hd and it worked fine. I gave the laptop back to the client and that was the end of that or so I thought.
The laptop was stolen and it had low jack installed on the BIOS of the laptop. When I booted the laptop from my portable hard drive it reinstalled low jack in to my main computer database. For those of you who do not know what low jack is it is a system used by the police that comes installed in the bios of most newer dell pc's if a laptop is stolen and the hd is wiped clean it automatically rewrites itself onto the new hard drive through the bios. Low jack then spreads through the pc and signals the authorities of your ip address your system it gives them access to every file screen shot and even keystroke you make.
So I find out that for the last year this low jack company has had access to every thing I have done online every time I plugged in my external hard drive to my computer. They have been monitoring my emails all of my passwords everything. The cops come and obviously their is no computer here but low jack is still pinging my ip address saying that it is connected to my system.
Honestly I am not even for sure now if it has not somehow spread to my main pc as well, nor if it even came from the customer above because we work on so many of them , we also get in mother boards from everywhere I have about 30 different ones and if a Motherboard is broke we scrap them, strip them for every part we can and then trash them if it works we build laptops out of them so it could be on any one of them.
I have explained this all to the authorities and they knew I had a computer company because they have been reading all my emails for the last year but they are still giving me the old "well you better figure out who you got the motherboard , or laptop from between august to October of last year or we will charge you with receiving stolen property" and their is no way these things come from flea markets, pawn shops, yard sales, everywhere and when you go pick up ten mother boards every couple weeks you eventually end up with so many that you have absolutely no idea where they come from.
So what should I do first off I took everything I had to their office and they have no way of running the tags on all the boards, and chips I have they did look at the serial numbers I have on the laptops.
Second, How do I even figure out where this low jack crap is to trash it ? Or do I need to destroy everything pc related in my home which could ruin my business .
Third do I have any shot at seeking any type of law suit against these guys for invasion of privacy?