Cannot restart ESET service?

[JoeyJoeJoe]

I've come across most of my workstations with ESET installed and discovered that I cannot restart the ESET service. I'm connected to services.msc as local administrator, but still cannot restart it.

Is this by design? Is it a policy setting in ERAS?

Thanks,
JJJ

[Brambb]

Why would you want to restart the service?

And yes its by design, the self defense module prevent it from being stopped (and restarted).

[JoeyJoeJoe]

Originally Posted by Brambb

Why would you want to restart the service?

Restarting a service is a common troubleshooting step when it becomes unresponsive or is taking up huge amounts of CPU time, memory, etc.

If ekrn.exe misbehaves in this way, I figured restarting it might help.

Thanks,
JJJ