Applications closing by themselves

Hi,
Recently I've had problems with applications closing down without warning. Mostly I noticed it with Office applications and also with Google Chrome. It got to the point that they would shut down seconds after starting up. I thought it was an operating system problem (XP) then the wireless keyboard and/or mouse and I even re-installed these applications but these didn't help. I think I've tracked the problem down to Nod32's HIPS module. As soon as I shut this down and restarted my computer the problem has gone away. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem. Any ideas?

 

Is HIPS enabled ?

 

Was before when I had the problem but not now.

 

Submit an issue ticket to ESET. This is a common problem in the V5 engine.

 

Thanks. I've contacted ESET as suggested.