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Jul142010

Get Better Protection from Collective Safety Programs - at Home and Online

DateWednesday, July 14, 2010 at 11:15AM | AuthorDenise

My family recently moved to a new neighborhood that contains an active neighborhood watch program, which reminded me of the Immunet Community in many ways. The "Neighborhood Watch" is a time-tested community-based protection model, and is one of the oldest and most effective crime prevention programs in the United States. Neighborhood Watch programs enable ordinary citizens to collaborate with law enforcement to deter crime and make communities safer. Statistics show that neighborhoods with Neighborhood Watch programs have crime rates 40 percent lower than those neighborhoods without such a program. We are hoping to provide the same collective benefit from our "safety in numbers" approach at Immunet; by enabling ordinary net citizens with simple security tools (like Immunet Protect) that keep their PC's and communities safer online. By collecting virus samples from the Immunet community and maintaining a virtual database of millions of threats in the Immunet Cloud, we serve as your real-time online "virus safety guard" to defend your computer against intruders on a collective, global scale.

Our closest neighbors are the people most likely to be able to help us in the case of emergency, and have a vested interested in helping you keep your home safe from fire, burglary, or other damage. There is also good old-fashioned neighborly concern for others, which is also one of the reasons why so many of you have chosen to share Immunet Protect with your friends. You want to help them keep their PCs safe because you care about them, or you might want to prevent them from giving you a virus, or avoid having them call you for PC Support when they do get a virus! The neighborhood watch program becomes more effective as each home joins in participating, just as the Immunet Community grows in strength with each new member we welcome -- true safety in numbers with Collective Immunity.

We encourage you to use Immunet's Community feature to protect people by inviting your contacts to use Immunet Protect Free. While you don't need to share Immunet to benefit from Collective Immunity, a little sharing can go a long way in keeping everyone using Immunet safer against threats. Each time any user in the Immunet community gets a virus, they contribute to the collective intelligence within the Immunet Cloud (think of this as "command central" for our Immunet 'Neighborhood Watch' program). Once that virus is blocked on one computer, it is instantly blocked on ALL computers connected to Immunet at that time. This means that all people using Immunet Protect are now forever immune to that specific virus for as long as their protection status remains active with Immunet. 

Going back to the local neighborhood watch model, imagine if your neighbor detected an intruder at her home, and could instantly alert you and all your neighbors of that intrusion -- and simultaneously keep you safe from that same intruder...forever? As soon as that intruder is detected, it is added to a virtual database of "intruder signatures" (we know them as "virus fingerprints" in the Immunet Community), so that no one in your community need ever worry that they will be a victim of that same intruder -- thanks to your participation in that collective protection model. This is how Immunet's Collective Immunity works using Immunet Protect. 

To add more contacts in your Immunet Community, simply go to your "Community" tab and enter your contact's email address. Each member you add increases your "Protection Factor", which measures the value you bring to detecting threats for the rest of the community. You can add the Immunet Team to get started: oliver@immunet.com, alfred@immunet.com, charles@immunet.com, adam@immunet.com, millard@immunet.com, denise@immunet.com

To start a neighborhood watch program in your own local community, check out these resourcesonline: USAonWatch.org, National Neighborhood Watch Institute and also Crime Reports (for US-based crime alerts only). 

Remember that safety begins in the home, and online safety begins with protecting your PC and your online community. Both Immunet Protect and the Neighborhood Watch program are simple and FREE -- all it takes is a little collaboration to benefit from these collective protection models.

Get it from CNET Download.com!

 

SPECIAL PARTNER PROMOTION: Immunet has partnered with ADT Home Security to offer US-Based Immunet members a FREE ADT Monitored Home Security System, valued at $850. There is no cost for parts & activation for Immunet users. Simply pay a $99 installation charge, purchase the home monitoring service & you get a FREE Home Security System by calling 1-877-318-5199

Protect someone for free using Immunet today.

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