We are pround to announce the release of Blink personal 4.4.1. This release contains many bug fixes along feature enhancements.
Date of Release: 18 Aug 2009
Product Name: Blink Personal
Updated Version: 4.4.1
Superseded Version: 3.5 - 4.3.2
Table of Contents
1. What's New in This Release
2. Known Issues
3. General Notes
4. Release Availability
5. Current and Historical Issues Resolved
1. What's New in 4.4.1
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- Addition of Smart Scanning mode to the On-Access Malware
Scanner. This improves overall system performance by
automatically excluding indexing applications, backup services,
etc.
- Application Protection events now contain the command line of the
offending application.
- Combined and improved malware event logging adding detection
method and action taken.
- Added a script in the eEye Diagnostics Tool to detect which files
are being scanned by the On-Access Malware Scanner to help create
exclusions.
- Malware Scan reports now specify the type of scan.
- Vulnerability Assessment scanning is now performed at a lower
priority to lessen the impact on system performance.
- Malware scans performed at idle priority will have a lesser
impact on the system.
- Documentation has been revised and improved.
- Enhanced protection for CVE-2009-0230 "Vulnerability in the
Windows Print Spooler Could Allow Information Disclosure".
- The Malware Scanner now supports 50 file exclusions and 100
extension exclusions.
- Malware events now contain the MD5 checksum of the detected
binary.
- IPS events triggered by the ActiveX IPS protection now contain
the Class ID of the ActiveX object.
2. Known Issues
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- NONE
3. General Notes
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- Blink Personal only supports Microsoft Windows workstation class
operating systems.
4. Release Availability
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- This release is available using the eEye Auto-Updater and by
download from http://download.eeye.com/blinkpersonal
The MD5 signature is: badb2c78df7af8da26c32e7089a0b539
The SHA-1 signature is: c6afa4b6b242105a3a713a1b7b435987fa310691
5. Issues Resolved
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4.4.1 (18 Aug 2009)
- Fixed a number of issues resulting from performing Malware Scans
while the On-Access scanning was disabled.
- Fixed various issues in the AntiMalware layer.
- Fixed a bug quarantining malware located in folders with a very
long path.
- Fixed Application Protection false positives caused by .NET
applications on Windows 2008 x64.
- Malware scans now take less memory.
- Fixed an issue where the Blink icon was not animated during
malware scans in certain situations.
- Fixed a crash in Internet Explorer 8 caused by the Application
Protection engine conflicting with existing hooks.
- Fixed an IPS deadlock.
- Fixed an issue where all traffic was stopped on some systems
with NICs that use IP checksum offloading.
- Fixed an issue causing Microsoft Word 2007 to crash when in
Full Screen Reading mode.
- Fixed false positives in the SMTP protocol analyzer.
- Fixed a bug which caused IP addresses in the Trusted list to
be trusted even after removed from the policy.
- Fixed an issue leading to incomplete malware quarantine packages
lacking the deleted registry keys. Such a malware package would
then fail to be restored.
- Fixed an issue causing non-paged pool memory exhaustion due to
the AV On-Access cache being too large.
- Fixed an issue in the RPC protocol analyzer causing the IPS to
deadlock and stop all traffic.
- Fixed an issue with running protected movies using Microsoft
Silverlight. Playing content from Netflix is known to have
triggered this bug.
- AntiMalware exclusions are now applied when files are executed
as well as when they are Read and Written.
- ActiveX protection will not be applied to other applications than
Internet Explorer. This fix allows older VB6 Help files to work.
- Fixed deadlocks caused by scanning named pipes and mailslots.
- Fixed a Blink GUI bug where Registry Protection rules could be
created without specifying read/write action.
- Fixed several bugs leading to BSODs on certain configurations.
- Fixed a bug causing the BSOD detection to trigger even if the
system has been forcibly rebooted at large intervals (normally
the detection should trigger in the case of a looping reboot).
- Fixed a bug causing the blinksvc.log file to be locked after
debugging was stopped.
- Reduced the severity of several events.
- Fixed a bug causing network shares to become unavailable.
- Fixed a crash in the SSL protocol analyzer.
- Fixed a bug where the IPS was blocking a Bank of America website.
- Fixed IMAP protocol analyzer errors.
- Fixed a hanging bug when Blink was shut down from the File
Shutdown menu.
- Fixed an issue causing the Application firewall to report
incorrect processes.
- Fixed an issue where permanent banned or trusted IPs would be
shown as expiring in less than one minute.
- Fixed a bug causing the Auto-Update time to not be properly
displayed on systems with a non-US locale.
- Fixed SMTP false positives when running on Exchange SMTP
connectors.
- Fixed an issue where certain very large archives would deadlock
the AntiMalware engine and fill up the hard disk.
- Fixed false positives in the MSN protocol analyzer.
- Fixed an issue where malware data would be truncated in the log
event.
- Fixed an issue where Remote Desktop connections would be left
hanging on Vista and Server 2008 systems.
- Fixed a SMB Reflection Attack false positive.
- Fixed a service crash caused by scanning the RDP port after
disabling the RDP IPS rules.