
                    PRESS RELEASE Jan 17, 1995

              FREE COMPUTER THEFT PREVENTION SOFTWARE

                     MICRO LAW SOFTWARE, INC.
                        Post Office Box 88
                      Troutdale, Oregon 97060


     Personal computers......... Over 50 million have been sold and
thousands are stolen every year and easily resold.  A thief's dream
and a police nightmare.

     Small in size, usually worth thousands of dollars, they are
easy to steal, a breeze to fence and almost impossible to identify.
Serial number stickers peel off in seconds.

     Pretty bleak picture.....But wait - aren't these machines
pretty "smart?"  What if you could somehow access the "artificial
intelligence" of the computer to identify itself and its owner?

     Now computer theft prevention software is available to
individual computer owners for little or no charge.  This is due to
the joint efforts of U. S. and Canadian forensic computer
scientists!  Previously, this software was only available to law
enforcement agencies and corporations.  Computer owners who use DOS
or WINDOWS can now acquire this software nationwide from numerous
computer Bulletin Boards and shareware distributors.

     MICRO-ID has been available to law enforcement agencies for
distribution to the public since 1990.  It has been well received
by the public in those areas where it became available.  It has
also been successfully used by some of the largest corporations in
the United States and Canada.  But, distribution by law enforcement
agencies to the public has been limited.  Police are ideally suited
to recover stolen computers but aren't equipped to distribute
software to the public nationally.

     The release of this new public MICRO-ID software version was
especially timed to assist new computer owners who received
computers during the holiday.  Automated corporate and campus
versions are also available for a modest fee.  Such fees help cover
development and distribution costs of the program to the public.

     It works this way:  The computer owner runs MICRO-ID and
secretly etches ownership identification deep in the heart of the
computer's hard disk drives.  The process is easy, secure and takes
only seconds.  In most cases, the information will survive the
format of a hard drive.  Ownership information is then accessed by
police with a special, low cost, law enforcement security program.

     Law enforcement, commercial, and media requests regarding
MICRO-ID should be directed to the above.  Public requests for a
listing of software sources should be mailed to the above with a
postage paid, pre-addressed envelope.  A MICRO-ID article is also
available upon request.
