Track your stolen computer

Prey is a premium net provider for monitoring and monitoring computer and computing device computer systems, smartphones and other digital gadgets able to strolling software packages, especially meant to help in cases of theft. The provider is hosted by means of servers on the net, to which an open-source software agent on the tracked laptop connects. The host can sign the agent, prompting it to reply with statistics about its modern area, and may trigger diverse other moves.[2] The user can log into the Prey website online if the tracked device is stolen, and request records about its vicinity.

Prey runs on maximum variations of Microsoft home windows (besides windows cellular and windows smartphone), Linux, Android, OS X and iOS. The computer model of the Prey agent is written commonly in Bash, whilst the cellular counterparts are written of their native languages, Java and objective-C.[3][1]

all of the customer-facet source code is posted on GitHub and allotted below the GNU widespread Public License; the server code is proprietary,[4] although an open source model is available for public use.[5]

when the device is attached to the internet after Prey has been asked for facts (typically after theft), the Prey server asks the software agent to ship vicinity data, that is made to be had to the proprietor.