ekern CPU spikes

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  1. orengreen

    orengreen Registered Member

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    Hello,
    When clicking (to highlight) or double-clicking (to open) media files (avi files), my system freezes for 30-40 seconds. Task manager reveals this to be because of ekern taking up 99% CPU for that duration.
    I have configured ESS to ignore avi files, and even included the folder in my exclusion list, but this is still going on. What's going on with ekern??
    What can I do? I'd like exe, rar, and other files like these to keep getting scanned under the real-time protection, but avi files obviously cannot carry viruses...

    Thanks!
     
  2. Marcos

    Marcos Eset Staff Account

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    Are those avi files accessible on the web? If so, can you provide me with the url?
     
  3. orengreen

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    These are avi files on my hard drive, not on the web.
     
  4. ASpace

    ASpace Guest

    Submit some of the problematic files to support[at]eset.com
    Explain the problem , provide a link to this thread.If all the files are less than 0.5 MB , you can even use the internal web-form from Help>Contact Customer care
     
  5. orengreen

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    These are big files, more than 100MB.
    In any case, they are not problematic files... just large video files...
     
  6. ASpace

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    Well , if they are so big , then this is the problem . They need time until the program scan them everytime they are accessed (by explorer.exe)

    Pretty normal for such big files and I wouldn't cosider that a bug .

    Possibly a bug would be why the program still scans the AVI type files if you have excluded them.
     
  7. orengreen

    orengreen Registered Member

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    exactly,
    how do I get ESS to ignore them? I don't want to exclude explorer.exe
     
  8. ASpace

    ASpace Guest

    Open the Advanced Setup Tree (press F5)

    Navigate to Real time file system protection and begin editing its ThreatSense scan options . When you have opened the options of the Real time file system protection , navigate to "Extensions" . By default the program is set to scan files with all kind of extensions .

    Please , uncheck the option to scan files with any extension . After you do that , a variety of extensions that are known to possibly carry threat will appear. Confirm with OK


    Second,again open the Advanced Setup Tree (press F5)

    Navigate to the Exclusions.Add an exclusions , browse to the folder where all these AVI files are stored . Confirm the folder to be added . After that , mark the folder and press edition -> manually edit in a way so that it looks like that example path (with star symbol at the end):
    C:\Docs\files\AVI\*


    Confirm with OK and close . Restart the computer and report back your findings :)
     
  9. orengreen

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    Now it's even worse!
    I did everything you suggested, and now ekern causes massive delayes when I even open the folder (that contains my avi files) itself!
     
  10. ASpace

    ASpace Guest

    You can revert to version 2 of NOD32 if you want to and use it along with another firewall (there are many , NOD32 is compatible with all of them).

    You can stay with this version until the problem is fixed :thumb:
     
  11. Nunes

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    I had the same problem but I decided as was advised here to uncheck all the Advanced Heuristics. It solved the problem until now. Anyway I think that in the future ESET should solve this without users to have to disable features.
     
  12. orengreen

    orengreen Registered Member

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    Yes, disabling features to overcome what is clearly a program bug defeats the whole purpose...

    Dear ESET, I really liked NOD32, which is a great product, and I was looking forward to ESS being released. I still have faith in you guys, unlike the other "disappointed" users. Every program has some initial bugs, so I sympathize, but bugs such as this should really be corrected during beta stages.
    Please fix this ASAP, guys.

    Thanks!
     
  13. ASpace

    ASpace Guest

    I wouldn't disable AH on all modules because this would pose some security risk and threats detected thanks to it will be missed in real time.
     
  14. Nunes

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    What modules should have AH enabled?
     
  15. ASpace

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    At least enabled in the additional options on-create in the Real time file system protection.
     

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