eEye Digital Security

I have created this post to allow people to post suggestions to eEye, of things they would like to see added to Blink.

 

I would like to see the following things added:

1. Password Protection (like in the Professional Edition)

2. A TCP/UDP Endpoint viewing window (maybe on the "Homepage" of Blink under the category list)  Something that shows what microsofts TCPView does:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/TcpView.mspx ....  OR something similar to what Sunbelt's Firewall has:  http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Screenshots/?id=440&num=3 

3. Antivirus Quarantine section - If something is quarantined I would like to be able to see details on the alert when you click on it.  Maybe a link somewhere (or when you right click on it an option) that will take you to Norman's website explaining the alert, its category, threat level, etc. 

 

I agree with all of those and would like to add the potential of adding some cookie etc based removal tools or scanner like what spybot does .... seeing why should I run mutiple security based apps if i can just run one...

This would be a item you can run on a weekly or monthly basis - or just the incorporation of it into the current malware scanner...

I just need to know why it takes hours to do a full scan for malware - yet - spybot etc can do it in a 3rd of the time... I know there are reasons why I just do not know them....

 

Brent

Try turning off the sandboxing, heuristics and scanning within archives for whatever scan you've scheduled. You can keep them enabled for other scans should you want to manually scan and for on-access scanning. That's what I did and it takes much less time and uses far fewer CPU cycles while scanning.

Hey a great idea. 

#1 I'm not crazy about.  For pro it sounds needed, but for personal it seems uneccessary.  But as an option I think it would be fine.

#2 Great suggestion, I'm all for this one, but something better, and stateful.  More like TPF or CA Firewall products.

#3 ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL in my mind.  The false positives need to be weeded out without potentially destabilizing the system.

#4 Clearer messages that are easier for less technically minded consumers.  Remember most people cannot define 'virus' properly and wouldn't know one to see it, so having clearer messages in the log and or the ALERTS is important.

#5 User Friendly Manual.  The help is pretty clueless besides repeating what is displayed in the program without clearer explaination.

#6 Packet capture that supports Winpcap.

#7 Improved vulnerability assessments.  Ensure it's properly updating after software installs/removals.  This does cause it a great deal of confusion currently.

#8 Ability to remove blink icon from systray.  I'm not sure if it currently does this.  I like the icon but hiding it would nice.

 

 

Video walkthrough of rule making and the issues surrounding it...

 

 

Great suggestions. Some of them are already on our TODO list, and those that are not will be added.

I'll tack onto that last one - an updated "What is blink" tutorial:

http://www.eeye.com/html/resources/tours/blink/index.html 

As an alternative, I'd suggest attending an eEye Webinar. Webinars are live every Wednesday 8am PT (11am ET) for Blink Professional. You can also listen to a recorded version from a previous Blink Pro webinar on the same page. 

Of course there are some slight differences between Blink Pro vs Blink Personal, but the technology is still there.

http://www.eeye.com/html/events/index.html

The above mentioned "Product Tour" is an obsolete posting from Blink v2 and is missing many new features.

 

 

Yes, it is.

I was referring mostly to being able to show a nice little product tour I could show to people from whose computers that I remove Norton.  <eeechhh>    

Here are some more suggestions that I found in other posts.  I will continue to add them (consolidate them) into this post as I find them:

 1. http://forums.eeye.com/forums/t/409.aspx

Proper Dual monitor Support...

Somehow fix the issue where when on some computers depending on how BLINK loads at startup the MS security prompt does not pop up each time you startup just becase BLINK does not seem to load before MS checks for running firewals and security apps...

Tray Icon changes to reflect Blink status  eg: on/off/maware scanning in progress/etc

pedrox:

Tray Icon changes to reflect Blink status  eg: on/off/maware scanning in progress/etc

 It could wink at you or turn bloodshot when it detects something bad...

 

:)

 

 

I would like confirmation that when you receive and email or download a file that it has been scanned for any problems and an answer panel popup with what if anything was or was not found also a massage added to incoming email that is has been scanned and is clean and the same for out going mail in the same principle that AVG free does.

 

rocketman:

I would like confirmation that when you receive and email or download a file that it has been scanned ...

      I like that idea...would be nice to have it tell you how many files that it actually scanned for each email.  I am not quite sure I would like Blink to be appending that to outgoing email though because of two reasons:

1.  It adds more junk to the bottom of the email that another user (or me if it was someone else sending it) that I have to look at.  Emails get bad enough when you have someone forwarding forwarded junk to you as is.

2.  I don't like the idea of anything being posted on email my emails that give away any details of what AV or Security Suite that I am using on my system.  Yeah, call it paranoid, but I rather not let the world know that information.  With information of that nature it just makes it easy for someone with malicious intent to intercept that email and then say, "Oh look, this person is using this AV.  I know of a particular problem with that AV product and I know what type of file to craft up that I can send back to them that will not be detected by that product."

*** I actually had a friend that knows a lot about computers do that to me in the past, when I use to use Symantec products, as a joke. ***

     However, if Blink gave you a visual or made a log entry stating it scanned so and so emails as they went out, then that would be a great idea.  I just do not like the idea of anything actually being apended to the email itself that someone else can read.

      This is just my opinion though. :)