I recently bought ESET Smart Security (latest version) and I have it running on my Windows 8.1 laptop.
While I have not noticed any other problems, the one thing that I have noticed is that after installing it, my External HDDs keep getting activated (waking from sleep mode) periodically. This did not use to happen this frequently before (Windows itself has some components that also do this, but I disabled most non-essential ones), so I am thinking that it is some component of ESET smart security that is doing this.
I would like to know how to prevent ESET from waking up / activating m