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Thanks for the info, I messed with it anyhow and while NOD would only create a x86 disc I was able to migrate it over to the x64 disc manually and after some tweaking of the registry paths it's working. The linux live discs aren't usually large when compared to the winpe's so I look forward to that change!

It's been a while since I created new discs to boot from but I was surprised to find that the current version of NOD only allows the creation of x86 WinPE's! I've been consolidating a few different solutions (not just AV) into onto one PE and when I got to NOD (over 6 hours in) I was surprised to see that only the x86 version was supported (from a Windows 7 x64 Installation)! Live and learn I guess but I was rather disappointed to see this and can't figure out WHY this is the case considering x64 is the default these days and has been for years. Keeping x86 as an option for WinPE is fine, but requiring it is just silly and now I have to choose between NOD (restarting with an x86 PE) and wasting 6+ hours of work combining all of the others. I have to admit NOD is on the loosing side of that choice thus far. =(

I'm not familiar with this issue but if it was happening on my system, the first things I would check would be the 'removable media' & 'device control' settings under Advanced Setup>Computer and try changing a few settings there to see if it helps. The fact that your other flash drive works without issues though makes me think it won't but no harm trying. I will say that I experience a sort of temporary system freeze on occasion while using a different product, agnitum outpost. With HIPS all set to prompt, the first time I insert a new device that the computer must install it freezes the pc for up to 30 secs then resumes normally and doesn't happen when the device is reinserted afterward. I've never experienced this with just NOD and if it works while real-time scanning is disabled then it's unlikely it has to do with HIPS but you may want to check that as well. Hopefully someone else with prior experience or more knowledge on the matter can help you sort it out if none of that helps.

Well after responding above I re-enabled the web protections just to test it out with 7. I've visited my normal round of daily sites and haven't had ANY issues pop up yet. :-/ Update: I've had a few glitches. Generally the 'bugged' pages get displayed as html code or get stuck loading a certain element and never finish with the rest of the page. Once so far a jpeg got 'chopped' into a few blocks and displayed incorrectly like a badly put together puzzle made of large squares. Refreshing the page has worked each time so far for all the pages except jpeg chops. Depending on the frequency of future glitches I may disable it again. Update2: The frequency of the glitches spiraled out of control. To add to the list a new glitch (perhaps the same for all in the end?) is that when i downloaded files they also became corrupted and unusable. I tested files from various sites and once it started, it became common that they would be corrupted. After this, I disabled the web protections inside nod again. Didn't fix the issue. Rebooted, tested again and it was still happening. Uninstalled NOD and the issues vanished. Now I'm going to reinstall and keep the web prots disabled from the start like I originally did. ^^ What I find odd is how the issues didn't occur at all to start with, but instead crept up over time becomming more frequent until it was unmanagable. If ESET tests these two together again, they may want to do so for an extended (over days of standard use on the web) time to give the issues a chance to pop up. IMO the root cause to all these symptoms is corrupted/modified data that is just rearing its head in different ways.

Nothing I couldn't handle. As I stated in the post I disabled the web protections in NOD. I just posted elsewhere about this actually, lol. I remember having issues with certain things on an older NOD version and fixed it that way. So I did it with 7 as well by reflex. I love the AntiVirus, but I just like the other protections (alerts, rule setup, etc) of Outpost more so I rely on that one for most everything else. I do have them both running real-time but OSS is set to scan on execution only. As for the backup, I usually end up using that quite often, I have an image of a 'clean' install with just the essentials installed and revert back to it every few months. I download and test alot of software from cnet and tipradar. I do use VM's but sometimes I'm just lazy or its an intensive program so I do end up with some junk over time. Nothing like that new computer feeling! =) I forgot to say that another reason I like NOD is the quick response time I've gotten after submitting files for inspection. (All have been false positives so far /knock on wood)

I have Agnitum Outpost Security Suite 8.1.2 & NOD AV v7 running side by side with realtime protection enabled for each without issues however I disabled the 'integrate into system' for Protocol Filtering under advanced setup. I remember having some type of issue with this on previous version (cant recall what) so I never bothered to test it on 7. I have a mess of 'incompatable' programs that require tweaking to play nice together, this is the only thing I've had to do inside NOD tho.

AntiVirus: NOD32 (Web prot modules disabled), Outpost Security Suite (formerly VirusBuster) On Demand Only: Malwarebytes, SuperAnti-Spyware FireWall & HIPs: Outpost Security Suite Browser: IceDragon w NoScript Virtualization: VMWare Backup: Acronis True Image Other: Zemana Antilogger PRO (System Defense module disabled), DNSCrypt (OpenDNS), occasionally use Malwarebytes anti-exploit beta