Blink Personal must be getting better

what about this AV's detection rate and speed ?

 

Blink uses Norman.

 

I found what was blocking the install of blink so I think I will give it a run I have a download/install guard and it falsely identified something in blink as malacious and just stopped it.

 

Hmm, another suite.

 

It is most certainly a suite I used it when I had XP Pro and liked it pretty well. I guess I will see how it runs with Vista. I think I will install it in a couple of hours and hope for the best.

 

I installed it on Vista last night and it worked fine.

 

did you install the 4.01 version?? and did it convert to the free version

 

I installed the one in the forum and yes.

 

Thanks

 

here is the download

 

Gave it a try yesterday on an XP system.
Must say it is a more polished version then the last one.
Seemed to work well and does run light even though the total ram usage shows at 123,000k.
I just don't see anything special in this where it would be a must have or a replacement for what I currently use.
For me, I will have to pass on this for now.
For someone looking for a suite and free at that, it would probably be a very good choice.

 

It is impossible to remove all remnants having used every conceivable solution. I would be very cautious if you want to uninstall.

 

Thanks for the warning but I used a Snapshot from EAZ-FIX to retore my system prior to installing Blink.

 

I have Acronis and could do the same thing, but the fact remains- it wants to stay on your hard drive. They even have users in their own forum complaining about the same thing, and no help was offered by support.

 

That alone says alot about Blink itself.
If that is the case the program should be avoided, no matter how good it is.
All software should be easy to uninstall by anyone.
If not, should not be recommended.
Thanks for sharing your findings.

 

Well I tried Blink 4.01 for about an hour and that was enough to show me I don't want it on my computer. It might run better on other computers but mine doesn't like it.

 

Given it is eEye, I'm guessing it was less about the AV and firewall and more about preventing exploits. From memory it was a very intrusive program and really sinks its hooks in.

 

nope it wasn't about protection. I am running a quadcore comp and Blink really slowed my computer. I wouldn't have thought it possible but it did. It is possible that it just doesn't like something on my comp. But I do know it isn't going back on this box.

 

Blink bogged a Quad down? I was thinking yesterday that even NIS '04 couldn't bog this baby down, lol.

 

This is enough.
No thanks.

 

Norman is a mid tier AV. It is not as good as Antivir and KAV etc but it is on part with most of the others. If you have a look at the whole package, they AV is really not a major part of the suite. It focuses more on exploit prevention.

 

I know, Huangker.
I don't like security suites anyway

 

I wouldn't have thought it possible either . Nothing else I have used has even come close to straining the quad. It has to be an incomptability.

 

Just curious what is this guard?

Thanks

 

I was useing TMIS at the time and it falsly identified Blink during install as malacious. I have since gone back to NIS 2008. There are several apps on my comp that monitor installs but TMIS is the one that stopped it. The other ones didn't flag it at all. I eventually installed blink and found I didn't want it anyway