KristerSvenne

Thank you ALL for your help! Solution: 1: Set interactive mode. 2: Delete ALL network rules manually. 3: WITHOUT rebooting, manually shut down Tixati. 4: WITHOUT rebooting, manually shut down OpenVPN. 5: WITHOUT rebooting, start OpenVPN again... 6: Now you get prompted to allow all such traffic. Bam. Now it works. For good measure: Before this fixed, I saved a restore point "known faulty". So now, I reset windows to there, verified that now the problem was back. I applied the above fix again, and it solved the problem. Then I restored to "known faulty". Applied the above fix, but rebooted windows between step 4 & 5. Problem not fixed. I have no clue why, but it worked. Perhaps there's some tech wizard here who knows WTF happened, I'm just hoping that if someone else has this problem, this fix will work for them too.

Yes. When i uninstall ESET completely, it starts working again. I should have posted this thread in the morning because I'm about 1% away from losing my mind and using the computer to emulate a ballistic trajectory out of my window so I will return to you in the morning when I can write coherently. I do wish you a very good day, and thank you for your response!

At university, bulk data transfers are often done via torrent. Until recently, I used ESET internet security premium. I did data transfers using Tixati, and a local tracker. Now, I just installed ESET premium. Immediately when I installed the program, ESET started blocking access to all torrent trackers. Attempted fix: Set ESET firewall to "Interactive mode". Result: Even if i order ESET to allows the traffic, ESET still blocks all access to all torrent trackers, without excepiton. Set ESET firewall to "learning mode". Result: ESET still blocks all access to all torrent trackers, without excepiton. Manually add Tixati to ESET excepitons, Result: ESET still blocks all access to all torrent trackers, without excepiton. Manually add OpenVPN to ESET excepitons, Result: ESET still blocks all access to all torrent trackers, without excepiton. Manually all trackers to exception list. Result: ESET still blocks all access to all torrent trackers, without excepiton. Reinstall ESET & start over. Result: ESET still blocks all access to all torrent trackers, without excepiton. Reinstall ESET with last known configuration (saved to .xml file). Result: ESET says it was unable to import anything at all. ESET still blocks all access to all torrent trackers, without excepiton. ESET USED to be a good program, with max security while requiring almost no effort from the user. What changed?