Gomez

Are you saying I am inventing this? I don't know. Maybe I woke up this morning thinking "I am a big loser, how can I waste other people's time too. Oh yes, let me go to Eset forum!" This makes no sense! Think before you post something stupid *******!! Why would I take the time to register and post something if it was not real???? Since when did posting a problem become about "well, i don't have this problem." We don't need your opinion if this is the case! Fresh clean install of latest Eset 7. Set it to Interactive Mode. It asks me Allow/Deny for a while and then stops. When Eset stops popping the Allow/Deny windows, my local web programs stop having access to the web (until I either disable Eset firewall or switch to Automatic mode). The reason why I need Interactive Mode is because I receive a lot of Inbound requests which needs to be denied. No rules or heuristics can help me. I have to be careful with Plugin_Container too. Sometimes it is legit request like BBC iPlayer but sometimes it needs web-access on a website that has no flash audio/video. When I shutdown Windows, this is when those stupid Allow/Deny windows suddenly appear. And let me state the following very clearly, REBOOTING your computer to fix any problem, means failure. THIS IS POOR PROGRAMMING. ESET FIREWALL IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. ZONEALARM HAS NEVER DONE THIS TO ME. ACTUALLY AT ZONEALARM, THEIR ANTI-VIRUS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!!

Is Eset's real-time file system protection causing my Samsung SSD to heat up or do SSD hard-drives run hot regardless? Thanks.

I am testing latest version 7 of Eset Smart Security and it's causing me a great deal of problems when Personal Firewall is set to Interactive Mode. I figured it out in the end but there is no fix. Interactive Mode is broken on a windows pop-up level. This has nothing to do with rule creation, it's simpler than that. The Allow/Deny windows are being stacked up somewhere in the background and it's not possible to make them come in the Foreground so we can select the appropriate action: Allow or Deny. As long as this invisible stack of popups are not being answered, applications that you keep on a short leash (IE, Thunderbird, Firefox's plugin_container for flash content) will NOT be able to access the web. This is bad programming inside Eset Smart Security 7 (64bit). When I shutdown Windows 7, all those Allow/Deny windows (e.g. Inbound from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ) suddenly appear but it is too late as my laptop will soon shut down. Switching Windows to standby won't solve anything, you have to reboot. Clicking "Reset Windows Layout" on Eset won't make these windows come into foreground. ALT+TAB can't find those hidden Allow/Deny windows. You can switch to "Advanced >> Firewall >> Automatic Mode" to make those applications work but going back to Interactive Mode results in them staying blocked. It's all to do with those unaccessible Allow/Deny firewall popups. Please fix this soon.