What's new in Undercover 6.0.1
Aug 8, 2014
- Allow for custom voice messages in plan B
- Stability improvements
New in Undercover 6.0 (Apr 16, 2014)
- Undercover Watch
- Improved error messages
New in Undercover 5.6 (Apr 16, 2014)
- Undercover now also collects wireless connection information. You'll now know the name and hardware address of each wireless network a thief connects to. This information is often requested by law enforcement officers because it eliminates the need to get a court order to have the ISP release the street address. Now they can just scan the neighborhood with their smartphone to find the access point and its owner!
- Undercover 5.6 also improves the accuracy of the GPS fixes. Until now, we used Skyhook Wireless to get the coordinates of a Mac. Apple's Location Services worked fine but were too easy to disable by thiefs. In Mavericks, you again need a administrator password to do this. That's why we now use both frameworks to obtain the most accurate location information available.
New in Undercover 4.1 (Aug 9, 2010)
- Minor update that fixes a problem with Skyhook location tracking.
New in Undercover 3.2 (Sep 16, 2009)
- Fixes a problem of increased network traffic that a small number of our customers experienced with Undercover 3.1 on Snow Leopard.
- This update is recommended for all users.
New in Undercover 3.1 (Aug 31, 2009)
- Snow Leopard compatibility.
New in Undercover 3.0 (Jan 27, 2009)
- The landmark feature of Undercover 3 is of course the Skyhook Wireless integration.
- It is the same technology that powers location tracking on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
- Thanks to Skyhook technology, Undercover 3 can now locate your stolen Mac within a range of 10-20 meters (about 30-60 feet).
- Having immediate access to your Mac's location will enable our recovery center to provide the police with more details about the stolen machine.
- In addition, the entire process will be much faster too.
- There will be no more need to work with the ISP.
New in Undercover 2.5 (Sep 30, 2008)
- We removed the dead-Mac feature in which a Mac would start plan B if offline for more than two months, even if it's not listed as stolen. We hoped that this feature would have helped us recover stolen Macs that are never connected. In reality, the feature did not help at all, not even in one case.
- Memory footprint and CPU usage have been dramatically reduced. In most cases, memory footprint is down 75%.
- In addition, Undercover 2.5 sports dozens of under-the-hood improvements and fixes.
- Undercover 2.5 now automatically replaces all previous versions. Simply run the installer and you are all set.
New in Undercover 2.0 (May 23, 2008)
- Added a dead-Mac-timeout feature: if a Mac is not connected to the net for more than two months, plan B will automatically kick in. That way, we hope to recover at least some of the stolen Macs that are never connected to the Internet.
- Undercover now only connects to the Internet when a network change occurs, dramatically reducing network traffic, while making the system even more aggressive.
- Memory footprint and CPU usage have been dramatically reduced. In most cases, memory footprint is down 75%.
- In addition, Undercover 2 sports dozens of under-the-hood improvements and fixes.
- Last but not least, Undercover is now compatible with Tiger and Leopard. One version now works on both operating systems.