emjay125: Try putting this exact string in your exclusions; it's what I had to do to get it to work (except I have Win7, so D&S is "users" on...
I'm having this exact same issue. Works fine if Firefox is closed, but if I have FF open and Eset enabled, the CPU usage for ekrn.exe*32 goes WAY...
I had the same problem (slow network), this seems to have worked for me (ESS 4.2.67.10, Win XP Pro): Advanced Options > Personal Firewall > IDS...
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