Thomas Nicholson

Just over a year ago I was sent a preview copy of Blink 3.1 Personal Edition.  This was back when I was running different blog, NicholsonSecurity.net, which was dedicated to Computer Security and was also used as a resource for my Network Security students.

Well Blink 3.1 was the first true all-in-one “endpoint” and system security program I had used.  I tend to stay away from the McAfee and Symantic products do to the cost/performance ratio being poor in my experience.  Blink was a complete surprise.  I had known about the company because its based out of the OC but I didn’t know anyone at the time using any of their products.  Well in just the last year I am seeing them mentioned in all the major trade journals and on various blogs and in podcasts.

The over all program was well designed and easy to use.  The program provided antivirus, antispyware and data protection.  The hardest part of using Blink was the way it configures itself in the same way ZoneAlarm does, in the fact that it will ask you a thousand questions, about things happening on your system and what you would like to do.  When I first started using it, I almost uninstalled it, because configuring it was a pain.  After it was all setup it would just run in the background and keep my system safe.  I also liked the fact that it didn’t bog down my system.  That is something I have been hearing and used to experience with Symantec suites of security programs.

The advantage to Blink over running individual programs like AVG for anti-virus and Spybot for anti-spyware and other programs is the ease of management.  eEye keeps up on the latest security issues.  Which is no surprise Blink recieved industry recognition from Virsu Bulliten in May (subscription required).

Blink released version 4.0 back in May which was the version reviewed by VB in May.  The cost of the Personal Edition is $29 for one asset (computer) included is a one-year subscription to updates.  So for the cost of a single cup of 7-Eleven coffee a month, you can reduce the risk of zero-day exploits and have the ease of all-in-one endpoint security management.  You can get an 30-day evaluation copy from them here.

If you give the evaluation copy a try let me know what you think.  I will say now its not for everyone but if you have a little knowledge about computer security Blink can carry you pretty far.  The last version I tryied was 3.1 I have been running 4.0 for less than a month without any issues.  I’ll give it a little more time and do a full review on Blink 4.0 when my evaluation runs out.