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Pete Riches

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  1. I suddenly have exactly the same alarming Personal Firewall, Network Attack Protection and Botnet protection problem as the original poster on this thread, and also only have the "Disable Permanently" drop-down option against each item. I also notice that the Firewall "Learning Mode Settings" section (and sub-sections) is completely greyed out. I don't know if this is connected to the main problem. However, the "Home" page of my ESET GUI says everything is OK. Finally, I find that in Advance Setup\User interface Elements\Application Statuses, the "Personal Firewall dropdown is telling me that Firewall & Botnet Protection are paused AND non functional! What on earth is happening here? Have I been invaded and my settings changed? I'd taken off the settings password protection function a while ago because it was interrupting so much (for my own good, I know. Stupid me! Screengrabs attached.
  2. I have just learned of the very worrying DoubleAgent zero day exploit. Articles here:https://cybellum.com/doubleagent-taking-full-control-antivirus/ And here: https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/21/doubleagent-attack-anti-virus-hijack-your-pc/ The authors claim that ESET (And many of the other big name anti-virus vendors) is vulnerable to this new danger which exploits the "Microsoft Application Verifier". Apparently so far only MalwareBytes and AVG have issued patches at this point. Can you reassure us that ESET is aware of the issue and is dealing with it as a matter of urgency? Keep up the good work!
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