Date of Release: February 7, 2008
Product Name: Blink Personal
Updated Version: 3.5.6
Superseded version: Blink 2.0.0 - 3.5.5
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 3.5.6
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- No new features were added in this release
FIXED ISSUES:
- Fixed a False positive in MSN Messenger
- Fixed ASN1 False positives
- Fixed bug leading to many "The RET55 NDIS Protocol Driver service failed to start..." events in Windows Event Log
2. Known Issues
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No Known issues exist.
3. General Notes
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- NONE
4. Release Availability
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- v3.5.6 is available at
http://download.eeye.com/html/products/blink/personal/installer/blinkconsumersetup.exe
and using the eEye Auto-Updater.
The MD5 signature is: 147421d4207658d6e0cdb3fe21c8e326
The SHA-1 signature is: fc603e2b4ab5bce5837d6e3bddf7b388ae785bc7
5. Issues Resolved/Added Features
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3.5.5 Personal (15 Jan 08)
- The update scheduler has been enhanced to restrict updates outside of a specified window
- Added help pages for Firewall tasks, IPS tasks, Spyware tasks and System protection tasks
FIXED ISSUES:
- Fixed a bug in the eeyet driver
- Removed unnecessary pop-up window in the Add System Protection rule wizard
- Fix a bug where the user cannot change firewall and system protect status from quick-config if all sub-engines are disabled
- Fixed bug leading to many "The RET55 NDIS Protocol Driver service failed to start..." events in Windows Event Log
3.5.4 Personal (27 Nov 07)
- Protection has been added for a new Apple QuickTime player exploit.
FIXED ISSUES:
- Fixed a bug in the registry and execution protection wizards causing unnecessary pages to be
displayed when creating a rule
3.5.3 Personal (16 Nov 07)
FIXED ISSUES:
- Fixed a bug causing scheduled tasks to be executed long after their scheduled time
- Fixed a bug causing the Quarantine summary on Home page to not be updated
- Fixed an issue causing the Application Firewall prompt to not respond to mouse clicks
3.5.2 Personal (7 Nov 07)
- Fixed a bug stopping Remote Desktop connections to systems running Vista
- Fixed a bug with System Wide Firewall rules not creating log entries
- Fixed an error when Synchronizing files on a remote share
3.5.1 Personal (31 Oct 07)
FIXED ISSUES:
- Fixed bug preventing quarantining of files if the specified
folder is on a different partition than the one Blink is
installed
3.5.0 BETA (12 Oct 07)
NEW FEATURES:
- Improved usability
* Home page now includes protection status information
* Options and Settings pages have been redesigned for ease of use
* IPS and Firewall wizards have been redesigned for ease of use
- Improved anti-virus scanning
* Scans can now be prioritized to use more or less system
resources, depending on your resource needs.
* New right-click feature allows individual or groups of files
and/or folders to be selected for scanning
- Improved the application firewall prompt
* Firewall rules can now be defined to:
1) Always trust an application
2) Only trust the current session
3) Always prompt for the user for each connection request
* Increased flexibility for firewall rule creation including
but not limited to completely trusting an application.
* Predefined rules are now hidden and more applications are
now covered.
* Global firewall rules can now be defined to allow or deny
access to all applications.
- System firewall rules now allow filtering by local IPs and
ports.
- Email Quarantine feature quarantines suspicious emails.
Users can still view the email by opening the original email
in Notepad.
- Added support for MySpace instant messaging.
- Added support for custom Windows XP themes.
- Dramatic improvements to compatibility with other copyright
protected applications such as games, Nero, etc