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Blink Personal

Version: 4.3

Downloads Count: 5,728

License Type: Trial

Price: $25

Date Added: Jun 1, 2009

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008

File Size: 85303 KB

Author: eEye Digital Security

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Editorial Review of Blink Personal

Blink Personal offers a solid range of security features, both essentials and extras. You'll get a firewall capable of blocking both inbound and outbound connections, along with antivirus and antispyware. Blink can also perform a Vulnerability Assessment that scans your computer for known vulnerabilities, and offers intrusion prevention that aims to block a wide range of potential attacks--such as a browser-busting buffer overflow sent through Web traffic--before they can reach your computer and cause harm.

But while it's easy to install Blink and get it up and running, and likewise simple to perform some basic tasks such as an antivirus scan, much of the security suite was clearly designed with an IT Pro in mind. For example, the Vulnerability Assessment is highly useful for discovering any of the software holes that crooks frequently target. But you'd have to be a pro to follow many of the fix-it steps listed in the generated report.

Blink uses an antivirus engine licensed from Norman with some add-ins from eEye, maker of Blink, and the signatures used to detect spyware likewise come from both Norman and eEye. You can choose from a good array of options for scheduled and on-demand scans, but figuring out where to schedule a scan is much harder than it should be (go to Options and Settings, select the Virus and Spyware Protection tab, and click the 'Edit Scans' button). Without instructions to the contrary, Blink runs a full scan at 9 p.m. on Friday.

By default, Blink's firewall prompts you to allow or deny any new program's attempt to connect to the Internet. It automatically allows some common programs such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, but you can expect to get plenty of pop-ups after first installing Blink. The pop-up has a good number of technical details, such as the exact location of the program trying to make the connection and the Internet address that it's trying to reach, but it doesn't provide any recommendation for allowing or denying the connection.

It's relatively easy to navigate through Blink's Windows Explorer-like interface. The Progam's Home Page provides a quick status for each of the various components, with links to each one's configuration. But again, figuring out what those components actually do can require a high level of security expertise.

One big plus is that as a smaller player in a crowded field of security products, eEye wants to entice new customers with a generous year-long trial period (for personal use, that is--business users must go with the Pro version). After that it'll run you $25 per year. If you do try it, remember to uninstall other antivirus and/or firewall programs first.

--Erik Larkin

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Reviewed by: g4acre

09-07-2008

Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

Strengths: none

Weaknesses: will freeze your system & stop it from starting

Overall Evaluation: junk
Reviewed by: Blue1978

09-05-2008

Duration of ownership: 17 Months

Strengths: Multiple layers of protection contained under the hood of one security suite.

Weaknesses: Uses Norman's AV. This AV does not have the "best" signature detection rates, however, eEye did not choose Norman for their signature detection rates (eEye realizes signature based AV solutions are slowly becoming a thing of the past when faced with today's threats). eEye chose Norman's AV because of its Sandboxing technology that is built into it. Through the use of a few custom APIs, eEye is able to hook into Norman's Sandbox and perform further code analysis that is not able to be done with other AV products.

Overall Evaluation: Outstanding product! Version 4.1 is now available: http://forums.eeye.com/forums/p/743/3180.aspx#3180
Reviewed by: Richard001

02-21-2008

Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

Strengths: Appears to cover all aspects of Personal Computing Protection

Weaknesses: I haven't found any so far.

Overall Evaluation: I'm quite familiar with eEye, as I use Retina Security scanner at work. I was pleasantly suprised to find a basic version of this awesome utility included with Blink Personal. In response to Smoker's review, I would suggest that you log on to your system as 'administrator' to remove the product. If you do, you will see the uninstall in the main menu and also in add/remove programs. I sure hope you didn't reformat your harddrive!! ;) There are some negative posts on the forum, none of whi9ch I have experienced thus far. I'll keep you posted.
Reviewed by: Smoker

12-23-2007

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Strengths: I suppose it works well as I had no attack problems while it was installed although I remained using my usual protection apps.

Weaknesses: It doesn't leave a setting in Add/Remove Programs, has no uninstaller and CANNOT BE UNINSTALLED.

Overall Evaluation: Visit their support forum before giving Blink a tryout. You'll see many posts where the user is asking for help uninstalling and the Blink support personnel say, "Try this!," "Try that," jump through hoops. It's a resource hog that should never have been released. It's the worst app to get out of your system and so far the only way is to reformat your hard drive.

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