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I installed the "Neighborhood Watch" edition a couple months ago and I installed it with only a few problems all minor and quickly remedied. After using it I just loved it so today I purchesed 3 assets for "Blink Personal" and it installed flawlessy. Its about time someone came out with a product of this caliber. The anti-virus vendors have ripped off the public long enough. In fact they should all be very worried right now because I think they are going to be losing massive market share to eEye in the future. I hope they read this post as well because you know they have spys monitoring the competition in all the forums.

 The only problem I have is I downloaded 3.0.1. I did not get the lastest version although this version works just fine. Will I be upgraded to 3.1.1 through the updates or does one have to download that and do the update yourself? I've read there are alot of improvements over my current version.

 Anyway kudo's to the folks at eEye for a fantastic product and thanks to Marc Maiffret for doing the Security Now podcast. Otherwise I probably never would have heard about Blink in the first place.

Thanks and safe computing

SN Harden.

Yes you download the 3.1 version.  You can do that from this link:  http://download.eeye.com/html/products/blink/personal/installer/blinkconsumersetup.exe

The MD5 signature is:   79086d7d504a64aa9fff34fe56a50adc
The SHA-1 signature is: 5d4d6bf96cf53cb4c5f69865ae18cead11a3a880

You can read about it in the "Blink Announcements" section of the forum.  That is where I got this information. 

Thanks Blue 1978   I don't know how I missed that thread in the forums but thanks for that.

 snharden

Maby i made the record with listening Security Now podcast first, then installing "Neighborhood Watch". Aproximatly 30 Minutes later purchesing "Blink Personal".

And you are right SN Harder, all other "competitors" will have a tough time. No, i don't blame them as a customer. Especially some yellow boxes vendor. ;)

Yep serv you are right. Just watch how all the other competitors start trying to emulate what eEye is doing with Blink. I'll even go out on a limb with a prediction and say eEye will become the defacto standard on security products much like Google has become with search, not that eEye is doing bad now. But I think they will soon overtake the consumer market with their Blink product.

I've been running computers damn near 30 years and I won't say Blink is 100% perfect by any means but its about as bullet-proof a solution as one could hope to find. I also realize alot of people are having problems and I also believe that is because they are not following the installation instructions (for the thousandth time). Most folks are afraid to let go of there beloved security programs. If  their current solutions were so good they wouldn't need Blink in the first place in my opinion. Several friends and family members had exactly these problems and until they uninstalled their security apps they couldn't install Blink. Some people in these forums want to know what security products work with Blink. I ask myself WHY? In my opinion if Blink doesn't catch at least whats out there on the net now then nothing will and from I see nothing much is gonna get past Blink. I probably dig a little deeper in my computers than your average user and from what I see Blink locks down your system pretty damn well. I'll stop there and just say I'm nothing short of being very impressed with how Blink works. And yet straight out of the box so to speak I only had to create a few rules for a couple applications that Blink didn't want to run or let run as the case may be.

 Originally when I purchased Blink I downloaded 3.0.1. I just downloaded the 3.1 version and will be installing it shortly. Also the Security Now podcast is the best security podcast out there. I've listened to most of the others out there and Security Now is far and away the best one (albeit a little geeky for the average user). There is not one better or even comes close to Steve and Leo's podcast. Anyone thats wants to know where to find it its at:  www.twit.tv  or  www.grc.com/security   for anyone thats interested. At the TWIT site Leo has several other pretty good podcasts as well. The Security Now podcast with Marc Maiffret (Co-founder of eEye Security) is #91. It was excellent by the way.

I will definitely report back how the 3.1 installation goes and how its working.

Cheers everyone.

I got my old version of Blink updated from 3.0.1 to the 3.1 version and the upgrade was quick and painless. The whole process took maybe 10 minutes. The process was very straight forward and Blink walked me through it without any problems. It took 10 minutes because I went to make coffeee so it was really less than 10 minutes but who cares.

I also updated Blink no problems and that took just a minute or two. Then I ran a full malware/anti-virus scan and it completed in 38 mins and 7 seconds. When I was runnig AVG Anti-virus (Paid version) it took nearly 50 minutes to run and Windows defender always took about 55 minutes to complete a scan. Spybot was pretty fast and took maybe 20 minutes but it was only doing a malware scan where as Blink is doing both malware and anti-virus together so basically I saved about 95 minutes scan time using Blink with much better protection. Add up the numbers yourself. Thats a good chunk of time  over the course of a year.

AVG, Spybot and Defender took 130 minutes to run all 3 programs. Blink did all they do and did IMHO a better job and did it under 40 minutes. And it didn't report every single cookie on my machine. Oh the horrors of those bad cookies......Sorry just being a little facetious. In fact AVG anti-spyware, Adaware along with Defender and a few other programs I had only ever found cookies. And now Spybot has got on the cookie finding bandwagon. Personally I don't give two shits about cookies just report on the threats I can deal with cookies through my browser if I'm that paranoid about them.

On that note this is for those of you worried about your cookies, Don't worry about them. A cookie is a text file nothing more and nothing less. They don't execute or load viruses or load trojans they are just text files. They actually serve a worthwhile purpose. Think of cookies as those rubber hoses they string across roads that monitor traffic on roads and highways thats about all cookies do they monitor pages you visit, hold login info and such. They are not really evil although it sounds like they could be pretty dastardly things and really they are not. So when all your malware programs find all your cookies they are really doing you a disservice by slowing you down. You can use IE or Firefox or Opera, Netscape or any browser to delete your cookies. You don't need any software to do that. If a cookie is not a benign text file its not a cookie. Without cookies the web I imagine would be a pretty annoying place to be.

I also checked memory usage and was really surprised. I had IE open, Outlook and Word was open, Media player was open and playing and of course Blink was running and on this machine with a gig of ram it was sitting pretty steady at 19% with maybe 2% or 3% flucuation up or down. Memory usage seemed to be pretty steady with no big spikes as some people have reported. The only real spikes in memory usage was when programs were opening up. Thats understandable!

Also all my programs are working as they should. Right now with the newest 3.1 version of blink I'd say it seems to be pretty solid in the way it runs. Theres no unusual activity or spikes in memory usage that I've noticed. Also for those that don't already know once Blink is up and running its very quiet.

Blink doesn't pester you every time you do something if you want to allow somethimg or deny it just does its job. Only a few times have I encountered a pop-up in the last month or so. Another thing I need to mention is boot time. When I was running AVG, Defender, AVG anti-spy and Zonealarm my boot time was outrageous. I could go have breakfast and come back and my computer would still be booting. Now with Blink as my sole security app my computer boots fully in about 90 seconds. To me that in itself is amazing. It also seems to run smoother and surfing speed seems to gotten better as well.

So to sum it all up on a scale of 1 to 10 I'd rate Blink a solid 9 out of 10. I gave it a 9 because it didn't make my coffee or bring me donuts, damn software. When will they get it right.

Cheers ,

snharden.

     Yeah I myself will give it a 8 out of 10.  Right now with all of the folks using the free version of Blink and eEye receiving all of the random anonymous data back from all of these folks, I would have to say they are swamped for the folks they have.  I think the big task now will be sifting through a lot of the false positives and little bugs here and there people are having.  We will have to be patient and wait and see. 

Honestly if they just continue to listen to their users - they will go above and beyond all the other providers out there....