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The new multi-threaded scanning uses all CPU cores (including Intel hyper-threads). The result is that a full scan of a large disk for example drives the CPU, energy usage and most of all heat generation to maximum. There appears to be no way to thottle the CPU usage with ESET Smart Security and the manual work-around is to adjust the CPU affinity in the Windows Task Manager which is a transient mitigation which has to be manually reapplied.
I use the Marcium Reflect backup product and they made the same simple mistake when they introduced multi-threading and had to rapdily release a fix with an adjustable slider that allows the user to limit the CPU usage. I suggest ESET consider implementing the same approach.

You should not log into the phantom account or it will be reported to you as a suspicious operation in the Anti-Theft portal.

Yes, the bug was fixed in this version.

There will be a hotfix release of v13 by the beginning of Dec which will also address the issue with Anti-Theft.

Why not release an intermediate patch now? All four of my Windows 10 computers with EIS are having the problem. In the mean time, I have no theft protection. Theft protection I paid for, as a key feature of EIS.