[ESET Service High CPU Usage on Windows 8.1]

It finally stopped consuming CPU, so I guess I just got lucky...

[ESET Service High CPU Usage on Windows 8.1]

No, disabling real-time protection does not help.  And yes, number of scanned files keep going up!

[ESET Service High CPU Usage on Windows 8.1]

After upgrading to Windows 8.1, ESET Service started behaving oddly, very high CPU usage.

 

I uninstalled completely (v6.x), and have now installed the latest v7.0.302.26.

 

But the CPU usage is still high, here is a line from the Task Manager:

 

     ESET Service (32 bit)         31.2%       81.6 MB      0 MB/s      -0.1 Mbps

 

On another note:  The 64-bit version still uses a 32-bit version of the ESET Service, really?!

 

PS.  And no, temporarily disabling protection does NOT reduce the CPU usage...