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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Silverbane" data-source="post: 3628355" data-attributes="member: 38016">Well, I did wake up, when the burglar came into the bedroom.  I suspect that I frigthened him (or them) off, and that they did not think that anyone was in the house.  Unfortunately, I was pretty groggy ( I do not wake up quickly at all), and was unable to give much of a description to the police...I have changed all of my account info, for essentially everything, including putting out fraud alerts on any cards or accounts that I even thought I might have ever used in the past (essentially, all of them).Right now, I'm trying to do a couple of things to possibly find the computer and/or xbox...I've been calling xbox support pretty often, trying to see if I my gamertag is in use.  And trying to get to a person who at least says that they know what ip the last connection was from (they keep saying that they don't even get that information, but that seems pretty unlikely, given how easy that information is to get).I've got a service request in with the makers of my antivirus program, to see if they can pull the ip when the computer updates its antivirus definitions.I've got my isp looking for my computer's MAC address to connect to their network (my isp has a pretty strong stranglehold on the internet access in the area, so its a good chance that if my computer connects to the internet in this area, it does it through the same isp that I use).Once ony of these folks gets any of this information, I'll hand the situation over to the police.  One problem that I am having on that end is that the local police have ZERO computer training, so they don't really know what to do in these situations, at all, as far as using the internet or internet service providers to track down a stolen property like this.  I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for them, because they really don't know who to ask or what to ask them (of course, until I started getting help from here and other places, I didn't know who to ask or what to ask them, either).I'm thinking that maybe after this ordeal is over and done with, I'll try to get together with a few of the local ISPs and see if we can't put together some sort of a presentation or seminar or something for the police...  Because they really don't know jack...Latersilver</blockquote>

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