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Laptop stolen; Logmein installed; I see it come online occasionally -- what can I do to track it down??

Asked by Ajw43022 in Remote Access Software, Digital Forensics, Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

Tags: stolen laptop, logmein, ip address

My laptop was stolen out of my apartment a few weeks ago. It had Logmein, which is remote access software, installed. I've been monitoring my Logmein account regularly, and have seen the laptop come online 3 times now. I feel like I should be able to take advantage of this and track down the stolen laptop, but I just can't seem to figure out what to do.

1. Logmein provides the IP address of the computers that are logged on. But I was recently informed that "the LogMeIn IP address is only routable on the LogMeIn vpn (established by the LMI clients) not in public IP space." Meaning, I guess, that this would not be useful in establishing his actual location?

2. I could use LogMeIn to Remote Control the computer and either watch him and hope he checks his email so I have an email address; I could additionally install any number of helpful programs: computrace lojack, locatepc, etc. But it seems that whenever the computer is online, he is actively using it, and so would notice if I started remote controlling things.

I CAN use the File Manager and manipulate files on the computer without him knowing, though, so that would be my preferred route.

a. I know he uses Firefox, so I copied over his Firefox profile files today (C:\Users\(yourname)\Appdata\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles), hoping I could grab his PWs. But the files were blank -- I guess he doesn't have Firefox set up to store passwords.

b. Maybe I could access other potentially idenftifying files within Documents and Settings, but I am unable to access this directory (I get a message that I don't have the rights whenever I do).
**Is there any way around this? **

**Are there other potentailly identifying files on the computer that I can copy over the look through?**
**Could I insert some code into a file that runs on start-up (like boot.ini?) that would send his IP back to me, or maybe send other identifying information back to me. Maybe even keylogging information, but that's a stretch I realize...

I would really really really appreciate any help anyone could provide.

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Laptop stolen; Logmein installed; I see it come online occasionally -- what can I do to track it down??

Asked by Ajw43022 in Remote Access Software, Digital Forensics, Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

Tags: stolen laptop, logmein, ip address

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