eEye Digital Security

My event logs show

But the rules are all gone. I see only two choices here, an exploit in the program or a hardware issue with my computer. How do we figure out which one it is without the usual hardware side saying its software and vice versa?

Emailed screen capture to nicula

Did an application repair and my rules now show. Wondering if there is any chance you want any files from a system restore rollback? Have them available if needed.

[edited 10-07-2008 @ 0700 (-7GMT) to note email of image with alert window visible.]

Is this on Blink version 4.1 or 4.04? 

Blink Personal Version 4.1.1 - and I changed the name of the rule to something much more descriptive, still having the same problem.

What happens if you simply stop and restart the interface? I suspect this is just a GUI glitch where the rules are not displayed but they are still acting.

I tried that and I also tried the logoff / log back on - neither is a solution. If I close the GUI (either fully or just making it go offscreen) it doesn't solve the problem. If I completely shut down the application, the service does not want to restart. I'm beginning to suspect I'm infected with something that the AV isn't catching - and I've looked at other AV solutions. I do have my HDD on RAID0 and would be happy to make the drive available so the sigs would hopefully be available to ensure others dont get infected with this crap ... thinking that there might be some correlation between my problem and the problem the other user had/has?

While that scenario is entirely possible, I would try once more to uninstall and reinstall Blink. That should clear whatever errors you might have starting Blink.

I would say uninstall Blink one more time using Blink's uninstallation feature and then follow my recommendations at this post to clean up your system some and then retry it again:

http://forums.eeye.com/forums/t/752.aspx

I always refer people to this, because this has been the only way I have been able to correct such issues on my system (other than reloading my OS from scratch).   Unfortunately, Windows does sometimes become "funky" and needs reinstalled regardless of what you try.