eEye Digital Security - Blink Personal Edition

[Blue1978]

"The Blink Endpoint Protection products deliver integrated multi-layered endpoint protection in a single, lightweight client that replaces multiple security agents, protecting against known exploits, zero-day, and all other attack vectors."
"Blink Personal: Provides home PC protection plus Internet Security. Including all-in-one antivirus, antispyware, antiphishing, identity theft protection, plus personal firewalls."

eEye Digital Security Website: http://www.eeye.com/Products/Blink/Personal

eEye Forum Post (by Blue1978): http://forums.eeye.com/forums/t/998.aspx

Download Location: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4tkvyym

* * * Blink Personal Edition is Free for 30 days * * *

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Blink Personal Edition Version 4.8.0
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Date of Release: 04 Mar 2011
Product Name: Blink Personal
Updated Version: 4.8.0
Superseded Version: 4.3.2 - 4.7.1


Table of Contents

1. What's New in This Release
2. Known Issues
3. General Notes
4. Current Issues Resolved

1. What's New in 4.8.0
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- System protection events now contain additional information to
assist in investigating suspicious system activity
- Added option to automatically restore false positives from
quarantine
- Added option to manually rescan quarantined files
- Added Defer Anti-Malware Scan options
- Anti-Malware Exclusions are now validated for proper syntax
- On Demand Anti-Malware scans now finish faster
- Added option to submit false positive events directly from the
Event Log Viewer
- Added support for multi-desktop environments to facilitate access
to the Blink GUI. A Blink icon will now appear in each desktop.
- Added a link to the Diagnostics Tool under the Tools menu
- Improved the ability to scan locked files
- Vastly improved the Anti-Phishing engine eliminating most false-positives
- Added the ability to scan network shares and mapped drives via the
Right-Click explorer option
- Updated the LDAP Blink Analyzer Module to improve performance
- Blink no longer requires to be launched as Administrator when
renewing the license
- Added notification that installation of a Microsoft hotfix is
recommended to avoid running into issues with stuck network shares
and hanging RDP sessions
- Added a sample script to start a local or remote Vulnerability
Scan
- Dramatically improved IPS performance especially for NetBIOS file
transfers
- Scans initiated from explorer via Right-Click will now be faster
- Updated the Vulnerability Assessment engine (Retina)


2. Known Issues
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- NONE

3. General Notes
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- Blink Personal supports the following operating systems:
* Windows 2000 Professional
* Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)
* Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
* Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

4. Issues Resolved
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4.8.0 (04 Mar 2011)
- Fixed an issue with long scan times while scanning files copied
from remote systems via network shares
- Fixed issue with removing old quarantine files
- Resolved an incompatibility on Windows 7 with Cisco VPN client
- Fixed a problem with scanning boot sectors
- Fixed an issue where user was not alerted the system needs to be
rebooted after a manual product update
- Fixed multiple minor issues in the Anti-Malware scanner
- Fixed an issue occurring with expired RPA licenses
- Fixed issue when restoring Quarantined packages when Anti-Malware
engine was disabled
- Fixed an issue quarantining malware using filenames with Unicode
characters
- Fixed an issue failing to detect malware files ending with a dot
- Fixed an issue with restoring quarantined files while AV engine
was disabled
- IPS packet captures now contain properly formatted IP headers for
the last outgoing packet
- Removed a Windows Error Reporting message caused by Execution
rules
- Fixed a bug causing the menu to not come up sometimes when
clicking on the green eye icon in the system tray
- Fixed an issue when deploying license updates from management
console
- Fixed a large memory leak when processing LDAP traffic
- Fixed an issue where Blink reported action taken as Repaired
regardless of the actual action on a malicious file: Deleted,
Quarantined, Repaired

[Blue1978]

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Blink Personal Edition Version 4.8.1
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Date of Release: 14 Mar 2011
Product Name: Blink Personal
Updated Version: 4.8.1
Superseded Version: 4.3.2 - 4.8.0

Download Location: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4tkvyym (version 4.8.0 - can be updated to 4.8.1)

* * * Blink Personal Edition is free for 30 days * * *

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Table of Contents

1. What's New in This Release
2. Known Issues
3. General Notes
4. Current Issues Resolved

1. What's New in 4.8.1
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- No new features

2. Known Issues
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- NONE

3. General Notes
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- Blink Personal supports the following operating systems:
* Windows 2000 Professional
* Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)
* Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
* Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

4. Issues Resolved
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4.8.1 (14 Mar 2011)
- Fixed an issue with Application Protection not protecting applications
restarted by Blink after stopping an exploitation attempt
- Fixed an issue introduced in 4.8.0 causing Blink to hang when starting

[Blue1978]

eEye Digital Security has updated their Blink Personal Edition security suite to version 4.9.0.

A few new features have been added in this version. Take a look at eEye's release notes on this version located in their forums here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ylxb8z