Windows 8 and ESS 5.x

Anyone experiencing issues with the ESS 5.x version and the firewall within ESS?
Running Windows 8 Ent x64 with 5.2.15.0 with personal firewall module 1103. Every time the software loads with the OS I am essentially showing a normal green status but there is no traffic traversing my network port. Everything fails to connect to anything off of the laptop. Once I disable the firewall traffic again begins to flow as per usual.
When trying to capture this failure by turning on the "log all blocked traffic", I am then presented with an "Error" popup that states 'Unable to read firewall configuration'.

Has anyone seen this before and any remediation steps anyone can come up with?

 

reinstall Eset in case it fixes the issue

 

Does it make a difference if you rename the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ehdrv.sys in safe mode?

 

I have done multiple installs and reinstalls. The issue continues to reappear without prompting.

I will make the safe mode rename today and see if it makes any difference.
Thanks for the feed back!!

 

Well again this failed upon restart of the laptop again, I have attached the log file if you are interested in looking at them.
Here is a snippit...
12/26/2012 8:52:45 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49335 216.219.117.209:80 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:45 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49334 216.219.117.209:443 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:45 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49333 216.219.117.209:8200 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:44 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49332 216.219.117.209:8200 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:44 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49331 216.219.117.209:443 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:44 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49330 216.219.117.209:80 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:44 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49329 216.115.208.199:8200 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:44 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49328 216.115.208.199:443 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:44 AM Communication denied by rule 10.104.33.142:49327 216.115.208.199:80 TCP Block all unknown outbound traffic in Administrator mode C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\GoToMeeting\880\g2mcomm.exe Laptop\User
12/26/2012 8:52:44 AM TCP packet not belonging to any open connection 10.104.33.142:49311 157.56.96.208:443 TCP
12/26/2012 8:52:43 AM TCP packet not belonging to any open connection 10.104.33.142:49308 65.52.33.34:80 TCP
12/26/2012 8:52:43 AM TCP packet not belonging to any open connection 10.104.33.142:49307 93.184.71.17:80 TCP
12/26/2012 8:52:42 AM TCP packet not belonging to any open connection 10.104.33.142:49311 157.56.96.208:443 TCP
12/26/2012 8:52:42 AM TCP packet not belonging to any open connection 10.104.33.142:49310 65.55.127.25:443 TCP

 

I had a few issues, so I put the firewall in interactive mode which prompts to allow. Cured it for me, might be worth a shot