Blink Vista support is being released tomorrow actual. So look for the trial version on the website within the week. I have been running it on my Vista system for a couple of months now the beta has been out.
As for why Vista now, it simply was not in big demand in any way as even most of the Gartner and related statistics show, people are not rushing to adopt Vista. However, now things are at the point where people are switching to Vista as a necessity and hence Blink is there for them. -Marc Maiffret Former CTO/eEye -----Original Message----- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enterprise client security - Sophos vs. ??? I tried to test Blink on Vista just now and many of you know how far that gets. What's with eEye and Vista support? You can't expect to be a player and not support Vista almost 1.5 years in. They just fell off the list of contenders. Carl From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enterprise client security - Sophos vs. ??? I have recently tested Blink on my home systems and like the feature set a lot. It's very complete and has the Norman AV engine so you can just check the feature of that. The only (big) negative it that it takes a 100Meg of RAM to run. That's way too much from my perspective. Warm regards, Stu ________________________________ From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enterprise client security - Sophos vs. ??? Thanks for the clarification. I believe Blink is the future of anti-malware - less signature dependent and smarter blocking bad behaviors. Now if could only get them in the competition at av-comparatives.org, there's be something to talk about. Carl From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Enterprise client security - Sophos vs. ??? It was too expensive when you figure in the server portion is seperate from the product itself and when you have less than 50 machines the server cost put it above the products like NOD/Trend/Symantec/McAfee. If you had say several hundred machines then the prorated prices is more in line with the other products. I too have a large number of >3 year old machines but I never tested it on one of them. I tried it out on a newer machine liked it then got the quote. As I said price took it off the list at the point. Jon On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When the free version of Blink was released I tried it briefly and the slowdown of my machine was obvious. I removed it quickly. Unless that's been greatly improved, not interested. Client has many 3+ year old machines that work just fine (they're not going to Vista anytime soon either). Not sure what "a bit too expensive for this environment" means - a bit too expensive compared to traditional AV programs? thanks, Carl From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Enterprise client security - Sophos vs. ??? Look at eEye's Blink. Very nice product a bit too expensive for this environment. It does a lot I never did setup the server side as the price pushed it out of range. Jon On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Client is looking at Sophos " Endpoint Security and Control" as a companywide standard and asking whether I have any alternatives. I've been trying to steer them to Nod32 but looking at the Sophos and ESET websites, it doesn't appear that ESET has an equivalent product. In particular, the Sophos product claims NAC capabilities, i.e. > Compliance reporting > Patch and vulnerability assessment > Enforcement Translated, the Sophos product will verify that MS security patches are being applied, and (presumably) shut down network access if something is wrong (presumably shutting down access to everything BUT WSUS / WU servers using its built-in firewall). It also claims the ability to block "unauthorized software such as IM, VoIP, P2P and games." Don't see that in the ESET solution either. Any real world experience out there with "Endpoint Security and Control", and if so, do you like it? Or alternatives that compete against this Sophos product and do a better job? thanks all, Carl ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
