1. A system comprising: a computing device; client software configured to boot the computing device to a normal state; a first memory associated with the computing device, wherein the client software is stored on the first memory; a network interface in communication with a server; the server configured to transmit a sentry packet to the computing device; a bootloader program associated with the computing device, wherein the bootloader device is configured to open the network interface port associated with the serve and monitor for the presence of the sentry packet; and the bootloader program further configured to download a software application across the network and execute the software application instead of the client software.