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Mobilizing A Community To Fight Malware

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 3, 2010

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“The word about Immunet’s free anti-virus solution is
spreading fast. The agent installed on my computer tells me that
there are currently 162,597 people in the Immunet Cloud, and that
I’m protected from 12,637,576 threats. When I first installed it
almost a month ago, the number of users was around 122,000.

“But, what is Immunet Protect? How does it work? And what can
account for such a fast adoption? These are all good questions and
they will be answered, but allow me to say a few words about the
company first.

“Founded in July 2008 by Oliver Friedrichs, former Director of
Emerging Technologies at Symantec, Immunet is still a small firm.
The management team consists of three people: Friedrichs (CEO),
Alfred Huger (VP of Engineering) and Dr. Adam O’Donnell (Director
of Cloud Engineering).”

It takes the power of a worldwide cluster to protect Windows
–ed.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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