Comments on: Lockdown Your Mac & Never Use it Again!

By: Rohit

Rohit — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:07:19 +0000

Really good explanation ! Very very useful ! i wass about to try this crap ! but HEY WHEN UR TRYIN A SOFTWARE FOR FREE < U WOULD NOT WANT IT TO BE A PAIN IN UR A$$ !!! SO FOR PEOPLE WHO SAY NO PAIN NO GAIN …KEEP IT TO URSELVES ! THERE CAN BE GAIN WITHOUT PAIN ! ANYONE WHO CAN FIND A SIMILAR SOFTWARE , PLEASE DO MESSAGE ! SHARING IS CARING !

ANYWAY NICE ONE BEN ! REALLY GOOD !

By: St. Bliss

St. Bliss — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:43:55 +0000

[QUOTE] There are plenty of other software alternatives out there, similar to Lockdown, yet better.[/QUOTE]

Like what?

By: Stan James

Stan James — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:28:56 +0000

I’m also having bad experiences with Lockdown.

It seems that once the alarm is activated, it is impossible to turn it off.

I tried typing in the password over and over, but nothing stopped it.

However, if I lock the computer and then immediately type the password, it works fine.

By: random8r

random8r — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:06:47 +0000

Yeah, the best type of security software would be one that doesn’t require any password.

By: MC

MC — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:06:22 +0000

I can agree that just typing the password, that you would have to input to lock also unlocks. Easy as that, abc…. and chirp chirp… no OS reinstall… lol… SAYS SO IN THE HELP MENU OF THE PREFERENCES IN THE SOFTWARE,,,

By: Councillor Ben

Councillor Ben — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:47:04 +0000

HAHA! I hate that feeling.
The problem with Lockdown is, it doesn’t warn you that you need a remote to deactivate it before you activate it. Once activated its too late.

Im glad you were amused by my “Mr Bean” style charade though. lol.
Yes, the world (and Lockdown) mocks me. 🙂

By: Jon T

Jon T — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:28:29 +0000

I found that post hysterically funny. If you didn’t have the remote in your hand why turn the software on. Sounds just like me when I locked the car with the keys inside – nothing to be done but break in!

Haven’t tried this one, but I do have iAlertU on my MBP. IT worked fine for me.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:53:19 +0000

good find MK!!!
Thanks for the heads up.
..I thought their must of been another way of deactivating it.
I guess foozoo should look at releasing documentation with the next release.

🙂 glad you find it useful.

By: MK

MK — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:22:22 +0000

Hi Ben! I’m sorry about your lockdown experience though don’t lose all your hope for the application just yet. I found Lockdown to be really a necessity as my college and the coffee shops surrounding it’s vicinity has been the target of many recent laptop thefts. I didn’t have an apple remote when I first installed lockdown but I think your problem comes from something you overlooked that I did well to do my research first to know.

Even without the apple remote you can activate and de-activate lockdown on your mac by typing the password (when it is activated just type the password as is, you don’t even have to click enter). For this feature to work you have to make sure that you specified your password first (which lockdown does at the first install).

Though you’re right, foozoo should have had some kind of documentation about this, I had to search youtube for an answer to “deactivating lockdown/ialertu without an apple remote”

though still lockdown is a pretty handy app

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:10:35 +0000

a security program should be easy to disable for the owner. that’s the basis of the point.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:03:02 +0000

You wrote “Any security program that doesn’t have an easy to use disable method isn’t worth using. ” What is the point of a security program if it can easily be disabled. I will give you credit though that the software does not seem to work as suggested. I security program should not squeal at you for each an every entry attempt and then lock you out.