Halo Silver · peace of mind
Halo Silver watches quietly for the signs of a scam on your parent's computer, and sends you a calm, plain-language heads-up when something needs a second look. Not a block. Not an alarm. Just the quiet reassurance that someone is keeping watch.
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Everyone's okay. Halo Silver is keeping watch, so you can breathe easier.
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Romance and confidence scams build over days and weeks. A warm stranger on Facebook, a pen pal on a dating site, a “friend of a friend” on Instagram. The conversations are kind, consistent, and real-feeling. By the time the first request for money comes, your parent has often been talking to this person every day for a month or more.
The emotional bond is the point. It means your parent defends the person when you raise concerns, and hides the money sent because they don't want the relationship stopped. By the time a family finds out, the damage is done and the scammer is gone.
The same predators show up as fake virus warnings, fake tech-support callers, and remote-access installers. Halo Silver watches for all of it, because it's all the same playbook.
How Halo Silver works
You set it up once. After that it runs silently. Most of what it sees is checked locally and discarded. You only ever hear from it when something looks wrong.
A small companion app and browser extension install in a few minutes. Caregiver-led setup, from your computer or side by side. Once running, your parent doesn't need to think about it or manage anything.
Halo Silver reads the text visible on social sites, messaging apps, dating sites, and webmail, and checks it for scam signals using AI, quietly, in the background. Audio is never used.
The alert tells you what was said, why it raised a concern, and a gentle suggested step. No alarm goes off on your parent's end. You decide when and how to have the conversation. You see the alert; you never see their screen.
What Halo Silver watches for
Manipulation is the mission. Halo Silver looks for the signals that a scam is in progress, whether it looks like a new relationship or a tech emergency.
A warm online contact who builds trust over days or weeks before asking for money. Halo Silver watches for the manipulation patterns in the conversation, not the relationship itself: love-bombing, requests for secrecy, urgency pressure, isolation from family.
Requests for Google Play cards, iTunes cards, crypto, wire transfers, or loans across Messenger, WhatsApp Web, webmail, and dating sites. Halo Silver looks for the language of financial urgency alongside relationship pressure.
Full-screen alerts claiming the computer is infected and demanding a call to a fake Microsoft or Apple number. These are browser-based, and Halo Silver sees them the moment they appear, before your parent dials.
“Let me connect to your computer to fix the problem.” Remote-access tools like AnyDesk or TeamViewer being downloaded or installed are caught immediately. Handing over control is how most tech-support scams end in financial loss.
A scammer rarely asks for money the first day. Romance grooming builds over weeks: warm daily contact, shared secrets, emotional dependency, then isolation from family, and finally a financial crisis only your parent can solve. Halo Silver analyzes patterns across conversations over time, not just what was said this morning. That's the difference between catching the scam and catching only its last step.
Pricing
Halo Silver is in early access. Pricing is being finalized. Start the free preview now and we'll let you know before anything changes.
Full protection, no payment required, while we finalize pricing and refine the product.
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Pricing being finalized. Early families will be grandfathered at a founder rate.
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Pricing is placeholder and subject to change. Families who join the free preview receive advance notice before any paid plan is introduced, and early families receive a founder rate. No surprises.
Common questions
No. Setup is caregiver-led. You install Halo Silver on their computer and create the family alert account. Your parent does not need an account, a password, or anything to manage. Once it is running, they do not need to think about it.
We do ask that your parent knows Halo Silver is there and consents to it. The honest framing: "It tells me if someone's trying to trick you, not what you're doing." Most parents accept this readily when it is framed as protection rather than surveillance.
No, you never see their screen. Halo Silver checks the text on screen for scam signals and sends you a plain-language alert about anything risky. It does not track browsing, read every message, or show you what your parent is doing. You see the alert; nothing else is shared with you.
You see the offending text, the reason Halo Silver flagged it, and a suggested step. That is the complete picture of what is shared with you.
Halo Silver is installed with their knowledge and consent. If they are not comfortable with it, it should not be installed. Halo Silver is designed for families where the parent understands the risk and welcomes the protection, even if they find the technical side of setting it up unfamiliar.
The framing that tends to help: leading with a specific recent news story about elder fraud, then explaining that Halo Silver only looks for scam patterns, not activity. "It's like a smoke detector. It doesn't watch what you cook. It just lets me know if something is burning."
Windows 10 and 11, macOS Ventura and later, and Chromebooks. On Windows and Mac, there is a browser extension and a small desktop companion. On Chromebook, the browser extension alone provides full coverage, because social sites, messaging apps, dating sites, and email all run in the browser on ChromeOS.
Most families are fully set up and running in 10 to 15 minutes. You install Halo Silver on your parent's computer, add family members to the alert loop, and the monitoring begins. On Windows and Mac there is also a small desktop companion that walks you through each step.
You can do it remotely with screen sharing, or sit side by side. We are happy to walk you through it by email if anything is unclear.
An alert tells you what was said on the screen (the exact text that triggered it), why Halo Silver flagged it (plain language, not technical), and a suggested next step. For example: "Call her today and ask how her week has been" rather than "confront her about the scammer."
Alerts are calm and actionable. They are not alarms. You decide when and how to act on them.
Free to start. Works on their existing computer. Set up in about 15 minutes, with nothing for your parent to manage afterward.
No credit card. No new hardware. No alarms on their end.