When should I update my Immunet Protect Beta?

Well, that’s a good question and not one that we have been clear enough about. This post will hopefully remedy that! Currently the Immunet Protect Beta has the ability to auto-update itself when it’s flagged from our cloud. We have not flagged an auto-update for the last 4 releases. If you are running Immunet Protect 1.0.18 or up there is no reason to manually upgrade at this point unless your trying to fix an issue and our Support group has asked you to upgrade. Our next release is 1.0.23, we’ll post and let you know our thoughts on that one as we get closer to it (it’s going into QA today). 

It’s important to remember that much of the functionality we build in (like our recent rollout of white listing) is driven from our cloud, not our desktop product. So often when we build new functionality you do not need to upgrade to take advantage of it. The same is true of many (but not all) of our virus detection technologies as well.

The reason we are not forcing people to upgrade (through our auto-update) feature is that we are trying to keep people in their builds as long as possible as long as they have no stability issues. This allows us to ‘persistence test’ over the beta period to watch how our software behaves in-field.

When we hit a point with our release schedule where we feel there is really protective (or stability related) benefit to people upgrading, we will perform an auto-update. This will certainly happen by April, quite possibly before. Once we pass out of beta (Immunet Protect 2.0) we will have fully scheduled update features, automated update etc. exposed in the product.

Cheers,

Al