Problem appears to persist with ESET Smart Security V6 beta. The problem can be demonstrated by setting up a daily or weekly disk scan schedule...
ESET can update itself via module or more rarely program updates. Other software on your computer is likely to have similar capability which will...
ESET Start up scan, scheduled disk scan, virus signature update, program update. As well as other programs accessing the disk or network interface...
Problem appears to persist with ESET Smart Security 5.2.9 (Home edition) Keeping the computer busy when a scan is scheduled seams to increase the...
Aryeh Thanks for the tip. I contacted my local distributor, and indeed it should work here.
In ESET "Log all blocked connections" to see what it is doing
Thanks for clarifying
I have an 8 computer ESET Smart Security Home Edition license but not using all the licenses. Am I able to use on of the licenses on a Mac to...
IMO it is more likely thedailyshow.com uses Akamai for content distribution as ESET usually get it right in my experience.
Windows installer often contacts a web site related to the software it is installing. Are you sure it was Microsoft windows operating system...
Btw If I "Generate a system health report" It shows "The Security Center has not recorded an anti-virus product" Via Control panel -> System...
Update Current theory is ESET smart security fails to do a disk scan if an error occurs elsewhere on the computer. Failure to scan is...
Allow every thing as requested in your known good system making rules as specific as you can without them being excessively complex. Learning mode...
If you think you have a significant infection, take a copy of any important data (documents you created, photos etc), without deleting older...
I would never feel safe using a computer after a genuine significant infection so would always reformat the disk and do a clean install.
Thanks, the rating has dropped back to orange now. Scans have worked 6/7 times on the 3 computers I run with this combination during the last...
ShadowProtect 4.2.5.16175 is now coming up in "ESET live grid" with threat level showing as a red exclamation mark and number of users showing as...
Update 4 Hot fix did not solve the problem. Still believe it is an interaction between ESET SSS and shadow protect. Now I look I see scheduling...
Update It occurred again. Was having problem with slow display of computers in the local workgroup so I enabled ESS -> setup -> Network ->...
Update 3 Microsoft hot fix was of no help. I currently believe the problem is an interaction between ESET ESS 5 task scheduling Shadow Protect...
That would be a useful "feature" to incorporate in a virus. Why do you want such a feature? I'm not that keen on having such a loophole...
Update 2 Installed the Microsoft hot fix http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=319288 and schedules scan was run. Too early to tell...
I'm still a little confused. How would a user know if he had a program which used the Windows Filtering Platform API, thus may benefit from the...
To update on where I have got with this problem. 1) Clean reinstall makes no difference. 2) The failure to initiate a scheduled scan is not...
Thought I should provide and update to this issue, and my attempts to fix it. 1) Uninstall ESS 5 using the a) standard method including...
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