Cannot restart ESET service?

I've come across most of my workstations with ESET installed and discovered that I cannot restart the ESET service. I'm connected to services.msc as local administrator, but still cannot restart it.

Is this by design? Is it a policy setting in ERAS?

Thanks,
JJJ

 

Why would you want to restart the service?

And yes its by design, the self defense module prevent it from being stopped (and restarted).

 

Restarting a service is a common troubleshooting step when it becomes unresponsive or is taking up huge amounts of CPU time, memory, etc.

If ekrn.exe misbehaves in this way, I figured restarting it might help.

Thanks,
JJJ