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Product Description:
Protection is an anti theft software with a lot of possibilities: iSight capture, screen capture, data hiding on the stolen Mac Protection sends all this information (including IP address of the thief) on a server and you'll be able to track the thief around the world. Don't be scared of revealing secrets to the thies, Protection hide your confidential data such as Mails and iCal events ! Your are helped and assisted during all the recovery process.
What's new in this version:
- New administration console
- New installer
- Lighter Protection once installed
- Faster and easier theft declaration procedure
- �?�«Proofs�?�» recuperation faster
- Various bug fixes and enhancements.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- QuickTime camera (built-in is better) for video features.
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Do NOT install this product 
- Version: 1.0b2, 8/19/2007 08:55AM PST
(5 of 5 users found this comment useful)
acghost
This is in French - Version: 1.0b2, 8/2/2007 12:12PM PST
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mi3key
I installed this and like it, Most of the install procedure is in French, but is obvious to anyone who's installed programs before. I was a little confused because there are two installers, and because the program is hidden deep inside the Mac so I couldn't see what I had done.
1.) Run the main installer from the disk image. Click the usual "I accept" boxes. You can choose "English" from the dropdown menu, but most of the proceedure is still in French anyway.
2.) Run the second installer on the left side of the disk image. (I first thought this was the uninstaller, but managed to figure out I was supposed to click it to finish the installation. There's enough English on the screen to make that apparent if you actually read it instead of looking at the big icons.)
3.) In the dialog box that appears, type in a User Name, which is also your Username. I thought I was registering the program, so I used my FirstName LastName with a space between them. Fortunately this worked (later) when I had to log into their website console to set up the protection.
4.) The second box is choose a "mot de passe" which is obviously your password. The third box is your email address.
5.) You will immediately recieve an email with the link to their website console, from which you administer Protection. The email and website are in English.
1.) Run the main installer from the disk image. Click the usual "I accept" boxes. You can choose "English" from the dropdown menu, but most of the proceedure is still in French anyway.
2.) Run the second installer on the left side of the disk image. (I first thought this was the uninstaller, but managed to figure out I was supposed to click it to finish the installation. There's enough English on the screen to make that apparent if you actually read it instead of looking at the big icons.)
3.) In the dialog box that appears, type in a User Name, which is also your Username. I thought I was registering the program, so I used my FirstName LastName with a space between them. Fortunately this worked (later) when I had to log into their website console to set up the protection.
4.) The second box is choose a "mot de passe" which is obviously your password. The third box is your email address.
5.) You will immediately recieve an email with the link to their website console, from which you administer Protection. The email and website are in English.
Case in point: Protection version 1.0b2. This product, after a month of being installed on my laptop does ABSOLUTELY nothing that its maker purports.
After running the installer, I logged into the Protection control panel to test the installation. I checked the "change status" button to report my laptop as stolen. Protection is then supposed to continuously email me the machine's IP address and other information. After a month...nothing. No reports, no alerts....absolutely nothing. More importantly, emails to Protection's makers asking for the uninstaller have been so far only answered with an automated response stating that they are "on vacation".
Glad to see they take their leisure time seriously.
Protection is at best a non-functional product and at worst, malicious spyware that is doing untold damage to any machine that it is installed on. We may never know since it's creator has been on vaction in the month or so since it's being made available on VersionTracker.