Yeah, I'd love a follow-up on this, hard to imagine that there is nothing wrong when I've got a secondary/non-OS optical drive suddenly @ 100% nearly all of the time when I'm away from the computer. When I sit down & start to use it, it stops, then starts right back up a few minutes after I'm done using the machine.
Under protection statistics, I'm showing 174,265,034 objects, which seems like an awfully lot more than I've got across all my drives. Really seems like ESET is in some kind of weird "permanently scanning" loop, and as much as I've been loyal to ESET, I'm not willing to risk the health of a brand new 3TB drive letting it just constantly run @ 100%. . .
edit - Didn't see your reply. I'll try excluding the pictures directory & report back.