AtlasMinor

I solved this easy as ESET has many connections to look at when not configured right in the Settings. Do non of the above solutions, and i about LOL@ re-register dll's. No, this was not this guys problem. Because i ran into the same problem, because WinUpdate was set to delay-Autostart at system startup and its the only 1 thing i ever denied interactive PLEASE NOTE ( For diagnostic reasons only). I love my auto setting but don't get me started on auto activated programs, they all suck. No offense ESET wonderful job, but having main core system names in the firewall to know where to look would have been nice. Answer / Solution for this problem, even if he has denied lots of things and is lost please follow my steps. 1. Open ESET Advanced Settings 2. Select ( Personal Firewall Expand tree) 3. Select ( Rules and Zones ) 4. On the right hand information screen , look at the bottom named (Rules to Display) 5. Select (Only User Defined Rules) Note. There are 3 choices, you want the (user defined) NOT (User Pre-defined) Predefined is still looking at the same mess just a little shorter. From here go to SETUP For (Zone /Rule editor) Its time to edit out what you did. RESTTING ESET DEFAULTS DOES NOT WORK ! This button is all on the same page second button below Trusted Zone Heres where it gets tricky, You should now be in the (Zone /Rule editor) somewhere at the top is (HOST PROCESS FOR WINDOWS SERVICES) Select (Deny communication to -svchost.exe- ) EDIT / ALLOW every one of them, like i said i only had one for when it did windows startup, so you might have many of them, because its used by many applications Also select ACTION-ASK- for every one of them. You will now get ASKED everytime the system tries to use svchost.exe, anywhere. after allowing all of those, click Ok,OK, and close eset menu window. IMMEDIATLY GO TO WINDOWS UPDATE, make sure you are still in interactive mode, click update. I hope this helped. Enjoy your updates. If you noticed you could just delete it... and that it still will say Deny with the ask option selected. You could do this, but you said total control and i kind of like it being there like that. This way you can always TempAllow it for that short usage and next reboot it is denied. Total Control bud.