Blink Personal must be getting better

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

 

Thanks.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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).

 

Quote Bigc73542,

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

Thanks in advance.

 

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.