Event Viewer Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Nod32 AV service to connect

[jeffshead]

I get the following errors in the event viewer on every system reboot/start on all systems which have ESS 3.0.684 installed:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 4/19/2009
Time: 12:33:14 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NO1
Description:
The Nod32 AV service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7009
Date: 4/19/2009
Time: 12:33:14 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NO1
Description:
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Nod32 AV service to connect.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.All machines are Windows XP SP3 with different software/hardware.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Rmuffler]

Hello jeffshead,

Did you have any prior AV?

Please contact Customer Care (http://www.eset.com/support/contact.php) and submit a SysInspector (http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN762).

Thank you,
Richard

[Marcos]

The latest version is 4.0.424. I'd suggest you give it a try to see if the problem persist. Does the GUI starts normally? I.e. does the splashscreen appears on startup and disappears after 2-5 seconds?