Snuko Anti-Theft & Data Recovery Premium
Are you in the market for a tool to protect your laptop's data and recover it after a theft? These days you have more choices than ever, and the various security tools take many different approaches. Snuko Anti-Theft & Data Recovery Premium ($29.95/year, direct) focuses on making sure your essential data is always backed up and on locating and photographing anyone dastardly enough to steal the laptop.
Snuko?
Snuko (not Snooki!) is an unusual company name. My contacts at the company explained they observed that many successful IT companies have a short single-word name (Google, Twitter, and Skype, for example) and simply made up their own. They hope Snuko will be the next big thing. It may, but the current laptop protection product needs a little fine-tuning.
Multi-Step Setup
The very first screen of Snuko's installer says "Our goal is to ensure this installation is as easy as possible." It is easy, I'll grant that, but there sure are a lot of steps. You start by selecting a language, verifying system requirements, and defining a temporary unlock password. Then you run into a screen that indicates a license key is required.
It's true that you get a 30-day free trial, but you still need a license key. A secondary window appears to gather data for creating a Snuko account. Unfortunately, the non-resizable window is smaller than its contents, making data entry difficult. Once you complete the online registration the installer automatically fills in a 30-day trial license key.
That's not the end of it, though. The installer next downloads various program components. Downloading the backup component in particular took quite a while. Once the installer downloads and installs the components, the process is finished.
Geolocation Surprise
Immediately after installation the program self-tests its geolocation feature by displaying what it believes is the laptop's current location. Laptop Cop ($65 direct, 4 stars), GadgetTrak Laptop Security ($34.95/year direct, 3 stars), and LaptopSentry 3.1 ($9.99 direct, 3 stars), consistently managed to locate the laptop within a city block using WiFi triangulation. Sometimes they were just a couple yards off.
Snuko also uses WiFi triangulation, but it placed the laptop in a pizza parlor about three miles away. My Snuko contacts confirmed that if WiFi triangulation fails the product falls back on the less accurate IP-based geolocation. That's what LoJack for Laptops by Absolute Software ($39.99/year direct, 4.5 stars) uses in its non-premium edition. Snuko actually did a little better than LoJack, which reported the laptop's position in the middle of a field about ten miles away.
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