Tip #3633 - Don't Blink or You'll Miss It
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Don't
Blink or You'll Miss It
You may remember eEye,
the security company that runs the Zero-Day
Tracker. It's a Web service that displays all the Zero-Day affected
applications with a list of supporting details. Well, this fine company
has decided to throw their hat into the ring and duke it out with the
rest of savages in the antivirus/Internet security arena. It's big news
for the security company , because in the past, they have really only
offered endpoint security for more of the commercial end of the spectrum.
eEye is reaching out to the John Q. Public and their “hook”
is a one year free protection subscription. That’s right, one year
of updates for eEye’s Blink Personal Internet Security and
Antivirus package.
This, in my opinion,
is great news and I hope the product does well, because it's one thing
we could all use that’s a better competition in the race to protect
us from online threats. eEye’s endpoint security products have always
ranked among the top in their field and I personally don’t see why
they wouldn’t have the same success in the domestic landscape.
eEye delivers what
they call a full security solution. It protects all the necessary layers
of security within a small suite, while remaining remarkably small. They
also break, as they call it, “bloatware” in the competitor’s
similar solutions. With eEye, you get all of the following below, with
minimal hard drive usage.
- System
Firewall: The system firewall controls the flow of data by
examining each packet and determining whether or not to forward the
packet toward a specific destination.
- Application
Firewall: Blink's application firewall prevents the execution
of programs or dynamic link library files that have been tampered with.
If an intruder gains entry to your computer, destructive activity can
be forestalled, because the application firewall does not allow any
suspected malicious code to execute.
- Intrusion
Prevention: Blink
understands the unique characteristics of attack traffic and blocks
it. Blink recognizes the content of network traffic at a high enough
rate to be able to block malicious connections and allow legitimate
traffic to get through.
- Identity
Theft Protection: Blink identifies and responds to attempts
to gather personal and financial information from your computer.
- System
Protection: Blink's various methods of system protection provide
proactive security against Zero-Day attacks. In addition, Blink offers
protection against buffer overflow and memory based attacks and it helps
maintain compliance with security policies by providing granular control
over programs and data.
- Local
Vulnerability Assessment: The vulnerability assessment engine
in Blink defines, identifies and classifies security weaknesses on your
computer.
- Trusted
and Banned IPs: Blink allows you to define access based on
IP for sending, receiving and retrieving messages, while keeping unauthorized
users out.
- Neighborhood
Watch: Blink captures attack information into event logs and
as you update Blink's Personal Edition through their auto update feature,
attack information is shared with eEye's research team to develop even
better protection tools in the Blink Personal program. Your privacy
is protected as this data never contains personal or private information
and is aggregated to abstract even the source of the data. With this
information, they are able to monitor the new methods and attack models
that hackers are using to proactively protect you and your virtual neighbors.
All that and only
60MB of hard drive space. That’s wonderful!
eEye claims that today’s
antivirus solutions are using older methods that just don’t offer
sufficient protection anymore. Hackers are looking for new ways to infect
systems. They are breaking away from the mass mailing Trojan types and
are choosing to instead exploit weaknesses in applications and operating
systems. eEye reinvents the wheel with unique features that enable the
Internet security solution to diagnose flaws in applications before they
have patches available to correct the situation. This is what eEye considers
"full protection" and they say that it’s what their competitors
can’t offer.
eEye is offering Blink
Personal 3.0 free for one year and you have until the end of June 2007
to get your free copy. So, if you have a second system that you need protection
on or you would like to try something new, this may be the way to go.
If you are interested in trying out the "new kid on the block,"
you can download the free one year subscription below. I have also listed
the system requirements, which are remarkably low for the hard drive space
it takes. It may use a little more RAM than you may be used to in a security
solution though as well.
System Requirements
- Windows 2000 (all
workstation versions)
- Windows XP 32-bit
(all versions)
- Windows Tablet
PC (all versions)
- Windows Media
Center (all versions)
- 233 MHz or higher
Intel Pentium II or compatible processor
- 128 MB of RAM
- 60 MB hard disk
space required for installation
You will find all
the information necessary to get your free copy of the Blink Personal
program here.
Until next week, stay
safe out there!
~ Chad Stelnicki
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