RichJo86

That is correct rugk. ESS installation was stuck at 59 or 60%, EAV installed in a breeze. Right now EAV is running fine. After the failed installation of ESS, ESS did not have real-time scanning active. However I could manually activate it. What came to my attention just yesterday was that my VPN connection to my work was not connecting anymore. I've spend some time fixing the WAN-miniports and now it's running again. Maybe the WAN-miniports were wrecked by the uninstall of Bitdefender, I'll never know for sure. Could this have had an impact on the install of ESS firewall component?

Unfortunately, as I expected, it did not make a difference. There is also no difference in between running the full setup or the live installer. It still hangs at 59 or 60%. After the ESS install tonight was stuck again I rebooted into Safe Mode and ran the ESET uninstaller, followed by a reboot. Next test was to try and install ESET AV. Because I think the installation fails when installing the firewall drivers, hence why my network connection fails during the stuck installation from ESS. EAV installed without a hitch and is running nice Hopefully there is also some official support to find a solution for the trouble I have. Via Revo Uninstaller I made some install logs of the ESS install and I have the ESET uninstaller logs. @ pavilion_alex: Thanks for your suggestion, if you have any other advice or suggestion I'm glad to hear it. Thanks

Hi, I'm looking for a new security product as I don't like Bitdefender (Total Security) which I had. After Uninstalling Bitdefender I decided to try ESS, unfortunately the installer is stuck when installing the drivers around 60%. Network connection is lost at that point. After a reboot ESS is installed but the Real-time AV scanner is not active. Repairing or un-installation is not possible, the installer hangs after a while. I uninstalled ESS with the removal tool under Windows Safe Mode. As mentioned below I also run some other security software. MBAM was not active during installation of ESS, disabling HitmanPro Alert didn't make a difference. OS: Windows 8.1 Pro x64 (fully updated) Other Security programs: Malwarebytes (not real-time), HitmanPro, HitmanPro Alert 3.0.22 build 131 RC I attached a Speccy log. Hopefully we can find a solution, thanks in advance for all the help! SABERTOOTH.txt