Date of Release: 6 Jan 2009
Product Name: Blink Personal
Updated Version: 4.2.0
Superseded version: 3.5 - 4.2.0
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 4.2.1
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- No new features were added to 4.2.1
2. Known Issues
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- Windows Defender lists Blink as Unclassified software
- "Restore and add to the trust list" is not restoring the
quarantined malware if the AV engine is disabled
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 through the eEye Auto-Updater and as a full installer
Download link: http://download.eeye.com/html/products/blink/personal/installer/blinkconsumersetup.exe
The MD5 signature is: d068b90f78bf14ce71837d5cbe366868
The SHA-1 signature is: a7834404dbf745da2c01592db5aaf91510298bc5
5. Issues Resolved
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4.2.1 (6 Jan 2009)
- Fixed an issue in the POP3 protocol analyzer causing errors while downloading email through POP accounts.
4.2.0 (17 Dec 2008)
- Fixed a false positive in the AIM protocol analyzer
- Improved performance on HTTP servers
- Fixed an issue where HTTP traffic was corrupted due to improper
processing of HTTP chunked transfers. This issue manifested when
publishing applications to Web, browsing certain Web sites, etc
- Fixed multiple issues in the IMAP protocol analyzer
- Fixed an issue where even though the Antivirus engine was stopped,
signatures were still loaded in memory after an update leading to
unnecessary memory usage.
- Fixed several System protection engine incompatibilities
- Fixed a bug causing Blinksvc to take 100% CPU for a long time in
certain cases
- Fixed an occasional Blink service crash when modifying Application
firewall rules
- Fixed an Application firewall bug causing a second network request to
succeed in spite of a deny rule
- Fixed several issues in the POP3 analyzer module
- Fixed a registry handle leak occurring with each policy update
- Fixed an issue where Blink service hung on starting after several system
reboots
- Fixed an Application Firewall bug caused by stopping the DNS Client Service
- Fixed an occasional BSOD while unloading the drivers
- Fixed a bug causing the Blink icon to report it is scanning for malware
during a Vulnerability Assessment Scan
- Fixed several Blink GUI bugs allowing invalid vlaues in IPS signatures
- Fixed several memory leaks in Blink service
- Updated documentation to clarify the topic of Malware exclusions
- Resetting Configuration will now properly reset to the Default
configuration
- Fixed an issue where when Quarantining malware from the scanner integrated
in explorer, the status will not be properly reported