sweidre Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Hi, The Whole Community is fastly increasing towards 400,000 members! My own Community has only 10 members. Is not the Whole Community already protected from the fastly increasing number of threats from the "cloud" ? Why are we then creating private "My Communities" as well? Cheers, sweidre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ami Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Private community is good thing. Like when you set up a computer or something, and want to add IMP as extra protection, you can add that computer to your community. By that, you are able to see if there is any malware detected on that system. Private communities are nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfred Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Hi, The Whole Community is fastly increasing towards 400,000 members! My own Community has only 10 members. Is not the Whole Community already protected from the fastly increasing number of threats from the "cloud":unsure: ? Why are we then creating private "My Communities" as well? Cheers, sweidre That is a very good question - let me try to poach some of the the user guide to help explain why Communities help. It's important to remember though that you still get the benefit of *all* users. My Community The My Community feature allows users to build their own protection network. The goal of this feature is to allow people to draw in those close to them and allow them help create a small network which they use to help protect each other. This is done under the premise that people with similar languages, preferences and surfing habits will encounter similar threats and can therefore band together to form their own early warning network of sorts. Because each person in the network can submit threats to Immunet which they encounter you can quickly build up a powerful protection network. It's like having your own anti-virus company and focusing it just on your friends. Here is an example to illustrate how this work: A Norwegian Network Example If you live in Norway and have (for example) 50 people in Norway connected to you, with the Community Feature, then your community will likely encounter and send up threats predominant in Norway. People in your network will see threats that are hosted on Norwegian web sites, sent out in Norwegian language spam and phishing attacks etc. So the more people you surround yourself with who have similar language preferences, geographic locations, hobbies etc. the better. However even without people in your network you get the full protection of the Immunet Cloud. The My Community feature can be launched by clicking on the My Community icon, which is the first button in the left-hand column of the main pane (shown below). The My Community feature is designed to allow users to build and manage their Protection Network, which is a group of individuals that the user has invited to join Immunet. Once individuals who have been invited join the Protection Network have accepted, their computers will start to submit suspicious data to Immunet. Immunet will then use this information to secure the computers of the user community against detected threats. This protection will be enacted almost as soon as the suspect files are submitted to Immunet. It will also extend to the communities of other Immunet users. The more people in a user's network, the more the user will be protected against threats that are detected circulating on the Internet. Further, the bigger a user's network, the more it will contribute to the enhanced security of the entire Immunet community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweidre Posted July 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Private community is good thing. Like when you set up a computer or something, and want to add IMP as extra protection, you can add that computer to your community. By that, you are able to see if there is any malware detected on that system. Private communities are nice Hi Lord Ami, The invitation to "My Community" is sent by email by Immunet to a single email address of the friend, who I want to join "My Community". In my mind, only his/her email address will be protected, not his whole computer! Please, correct me if I am wrong! Cheers, sweidre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweidre Posted July 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Hi Alfred, OK, I understand that each member recruiting new members to "My Community", will automatically increase the Total Community, as well! So to be frank, the increase of the members of the several "My Communities" is a means to increase the Total Community at the end, which is the main thing, right? Invitations to "My Community" The Invitations to "My Community" should be signed by Immunet with only a reference to the member, who initialized the invitation! Today the invitation written by Immunet gives the impression, that it is confusingly written by the initiator himself from a hijacked email address! In addition, invitations should be written in the language, that is the mother tongue of the addressee, for example Norwegian! We must hurry up with the translation process into several languages! This last paragraph should maybe be an other topic (thread of its own). Cheers, sweidre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugOutMachine Posted July 23, 2010 Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 I'm a bit confused with the My Community feature only because I discovered I have two members in My Community, both of which I do not know or recognize. Are these individuals added by Immunet due to certain criteria? How does one "remove" some from My Community? How does one get added without the User (in this case myself) know? Thank you in advance for any insight into this feature because I absolutely love the product but I do not get how people are being added without my permission. I must be missing something here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedersen Posted July 23, 2010 Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 Oliver and Alfred is added from standard in all versions You cannot delete one from your community.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweidre Posted July 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 I'm a bit confused with the My Community feature only because I discovered I have two members in My Community, both of which I do not know or recognize. Are these individuals added by Immunet due to certain criteria? How does one "remove" some from My Community? How does one get added without the User (in this case myself) know? Thank you in advance for any insight into this feature because I absolutely love the product but I do not get how people are being added without my permission. I must be missing something here. Hi BOM, I have not come across your problem, so I have not experience enough! I have into My Community invited the administrator "mosachedina", but he appears in my community as "mo" for short. Have you invited anybody, who used another name in Your Community? I hope, that an administrator will reply to your two questions: 1.) May Immunet add a member without your consent or invitation? 2.) How to remove a member from Your Community? Hoping anybody else will help you here, sweidre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugOutMachine Posted July 23, 2010 Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 Oliver and Alfred is added from standard in all versions You cannot delete one from your community.. Thanks for the info! lol, this is good to know By the way, how does one increase their Protection Factor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedersen Posted July 23, 2010 Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 malware blocked by each member in community * Community size -> reset after a month of blocking of the malware (for each one). Actually it is not working probably and may be changed soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khendricks7 Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 Hi everyone, Is 'My Community' meant to be more of a regional thing, eg. only adding others in your state or country vs. adding others regardless of where they live? Is it permissible to post my email in the forum so that others here can add me to their community if they wish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedersen Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 It meant to add all of your friends and you may add add your mail to the forum but be aware of the possibility to be spammed (we cant control what it is used for) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khendricks7 Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Thanks for the reply Pedersen. I'll take a chance and go ahead and post my email. It's kris.hendricks AT sbcglobal.net ,hopefully the spam-bots won't pick it up. Any forum member is welcome to send me an invite to their community. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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