Nightowl

Several companies have it as Malicious as per VT scan : https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/a8f8b7141634a4b58fd47c3669a6c306c10c384bb0fc175d53d3773a74c5921a?nocache=1 Are you using a crack on your Office program? , it could be that Also accessing the link will be blocked by uBlock Origin as it contains ad/trackers inside etc.. So ESET's block isn't false.

Try to check inside the Quarantine area in ESET , check for the file name and then search your email for that nameof.pdf and then get rid of the email , it should cease

If you have several linux devices , it is worth it to get a small buisness license for them , I believe it would be for around 11 seats , and you would control them normally through ESET Protect interface instead of the usual way of using GUI

If you don't want to use Windows Group Policy I have a simple way for this to be done , through the firewall , just block the Store exe OUT/IN .

For MITM attack to happen , you need to be on the same network with the attacker , for example the attacker would be sitting in your WIFI or LAN network Prevent access to your router from Internet side, update it to latest version or ask your Internet Service Provider to do so Change your WIFI password if you feel someone is there , and I don't think that person would be connected to you through LAN(cables) , since he have to go inside your home and to your router physically

Repeat as here https://support.eset.com/en/kb7554-unprotected-wifi-notification It's endpoint product , but should be identical as your product. That should make the notifications cease.

Becareful also not to fall into scams that mis-lead people to cause them to think that the person working is really doing good for your PC and after all he would just charge money for doing nothing or downloading bloatware as ITman said , it's better that ESET support do this and I also think there won't be extra charges for malware removal help from support.

After SFC saying it detected corruption and you've restarted and still WD cannot be enabled?

sfc and dism shows that there is no corruptions ?

I think turning off protection will not affect the startup-scan schedule It's from Windows product , but see the System startup file check? , those what I mean. and I believe even if the protection is off , the startup-scan will still run.

I rarely used Macintosh in my life , or ESET Mac Product , but I've experienced something similar with Windows and machines that have HDDs instead of SSDs , in ESET Gui , in Scheduler , there is a startup-scan , try to disable that and make a restart , will that make an effect on boot speed?

If your Windows installation have a problem try to open an admin CMD window and run sfc /scannow If it indicated some corruption , continue with this page : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

It is not that much recommended , still on LAN ESET blocks some attempts from other devices on LAN but it's not safe since , if another device got infected somehow inside your LAN , it can pass to other computers easily since firewall isn't filtering or working on LAN

If the file is newly seen and feedback is enabled with ESET , then ESET would upload it automatically but as I've seen it is spam box mails that have those detections.

Aaa , I can read about it here If some clan requires it to be able to run their server or matches , it is different , but still I don't know if the app is legit , but seems that their website is old and not new or fake but still I wouldn't like to run those things Each game has it's own Anti-Cheat programs , it should do the job from their side

You better stay away from applications like this , because they have no use , if you don't have cheat software then you don't need to have a checker for them And even if the app was legit , it would just scan for known cheat apps exe etc.. You can see that most of the detections that came in VirusTotal , is decided by AI , better to stay away from it

Even the A.I can sense the demonic DRM's darkness power coming from Mordor Nah that was a joke , but still funny when ESET picks them up DRMs or packers or whatever

Try one time to test without it , does it load instantly?

Do you use any kind of adblocker? or behind any NGFW firewall ?

If you use ESET Protect then this sensor should be responsible for your question: https://help.eset.com/protect_install/81/en-US/arch_rd_sensor.html

Try to download ESET Smart Security and run it as trial on your email address , it will give you 30days and after that you have to buy a license But , using the trial , make a full system scan and see what it picks up , or when the real-time protection is running , it can also catch if there is something , but if there is other things running as real-time scanners , like MalwareBytes or idk what antivirus , they should be disabled so ESET and the other antivirus doesn't conflict with eachother Windows Defender gets automatically disabled when ESET is installed. And I doubt that firmware downloaded directly from Microsoft Windows Update through Windows 10 Update area has some infection , unless something went crazy at Microsoft , but I don't think so.

Do you have ESET installed and have done a scan to the system or received any real-time detections? The firmware has nothing to do with the detections from MalwareBytes or whatever is happening to Edge, because if the firmware was obtained from safe place like Windows Update or manufacturer website , it shouldn't be infected Try to download ESET trial , ESET Smart Security and make a full system scan and post the results if detections happened If you have any other real-time scanner , disable it when ESET runs

You are on v10 , try to jump to latest version and repeat procedure https://download.eset.com/com/eset/apps/home/eis/windows/latest/eis_nt64.exe

Try to run edge and go to google.com and then go to Network Troubleshooting in ESET , and see is it blocked there?

You can run the Firewall on Learning Mode for a bit , few hours and then return it to Interactive , then ESET would have done automatically most of the rules it should do for safe programs like Microsoft's ones But please keep in mind