Blink Personal must be getting better

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by duke1959, May 31, 2008.

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  1. farmerlee

    farmerlee Registered Member

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    Must have been something conflicting as i'm only running it on a dual core system and theres barely any noticeble slowdown.
     
  2. aigle

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    Thanks.
     
  3. bigc73542

    bigc73542 Retired Moderator

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    I did a bit of checking on the machine and it had to be an incompatability issue as I ran Blink on XP with no problems. I really just wanted to try it out again , but I am happy with my present av and security setup. :thumb: :D
     
  4. controler

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    I installed it today and during install it asks for a lic key or click next and when all done it shows subscription good till June 2009 for Blink Personal.
     
  5. britchey

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    I have been running it for about a week and a half on the following configuration without performance issue:

    Dell xps 1210
    3 GB RAM
    100 GB HDD (7200 RPM) with 2 partitions (installed on second, non-system partition)
    Office 2007 regular use
    IE, Firefox regular use
    MSSQL 2005 standard edition with several applications hitting it
    1 web application hosted internally with IIS

    It has detained "Ezula" adware but otherwise has been pretty quiet since the initial onslaught of firewall interaction to set rules for my application.

    I consider myself a pretty low threat since I heavily scrutinize email from those I don't know and even those from people I do know that seem suspicious and I don't wander too much outside of the established roads on the net. I also haven't tried testing it by self-infecting the box ( I am setting it up as my business laptop) so I can't say it is impenetrable.

    However, for the vulnerability scanner, the relatively light resource footprint, and general duty all-in-one, I think it is a pretty nice investment at $30 for the professional edition.
     
  6. Bunkhouse Buck

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    Before you invest in it, you should know that it is virtually impossible to get it off of your machine should you decide to uninstall it.
     
  7. controler

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    Buck

    What is left behind? With autoruns you can uncheck everything that belongs to Blink and any Reg files should be captured by an install monitoring program.

    This is what I got running InCtrl5 but I already had Blink installed. I just ran the install over the old one.
     

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  8. Bunkhouse Buck

    Bunkhouse Buck Registered Member

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    eEye Digital file left behind in XP program folder and non-deletable. Others had the same problem- they complained about it in their forum. There is no removal tool to get rid of it (at least not a few months ago).
     
  9. kdcdq

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    Quote Bigc73542,

    Bigc, would you be kind enough to tell us what av & security setup you are currently happy with?

    Thanks in advance.
     
  10. bigc73542

    bigc73542 Retired Moderator

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    Sorry for the delay. I am at present running Rising AV and FW. I also use Spywareblaster, Opera and sometimes Firefox. I also run Windows defender, And a lot of common sense. And lets not forget my Hardware firewall.
     
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