FWIW a clean install of ESET7 seems to have resolved the issue.
My ESET (6) firewall has started blocking everything automatically, despite being in interactive mode. I've used interactive mode for years with...
Sorry for the noobish question (I am a noob), but why does IE have mail.google.com and login.yahoo.com and adobe.com listed as "fraudulent"...
Thank you both for your replies. Interestingly, I found that I made a post with the exact same issue in 2011 (that I had forgotten about...
I have rebooted a good few times since then however, and surely taskhost.exe gets run with each reboot at the least. Not trying to be difficult...
Wouldn't that happen right away after I applied the update (Tuesday)?
I received the following message today informing me that Host Process for Windows Tasks was modified. [IMG] It just came up out of the blue. I...
Thank you again.
Thank you. This was just a misunderstanding on my part then.
I clicked on a link I believed was genuine (and it may be, if the alert is a false positive). ESS immediately shut it down. It shows the following...
When I perform a system scan it normally scans 450k+ files and takes just under an hour. The last 2 times I have run a system scan, and I have...
When I open or close Firefox or Chrome it will often trigger a connection via svchost.exe to somewhere like 31.186.231.25: IP Address...
I occasionally get the following in my firewall logs: 11/05/2012 16:31:42 Detected unexpected data in protocol 192.168.0.6:11128 77.67.32.160...
Thank you. Sorry I missed the confirmation.
I checked my log files today and noticed the following entry: 27/2/2012 - startup scan - active boot sector of the 0. physical disk - probably...
Completely uninstalling ESET didn't change anything - so I guess it's not ESET. Thank you all for your help.
No it does not.
Tracing route to fantasyfootballscout.co.uk [46.38.178.219] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 7 ms 15 ms 7 ms cable.virginmedia.com...
My hosts file is totally empty, aside from the default blurb. If I use a proxy on my desktop the connection to the site works, but that doesn't...
I am having trouble connecting to one specific website (fantasyfootballscout.co.uk / 46.38.178.219). When I try and connect, it just says...
Unlike most programs, Skype requests inbound as well as outbound access. Is this normal and should I allow inbound for Skype?
I apologise if this question is too simple or is covered somewhere I should have looked. If I bring up the active network connections and and...
There was never anything in the Network Connections window of ESET. Edit: I guess it was my router. Unchecking "Enable PPTP VPN service" closes...
I'm running Win 7 and using ESET Security. All my ports are stealthed apart from 1723 which is showing as open. I do not use a VPN. Is there any...
Understood. Thank you for the quick reply, really appreciated.
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