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correct its an activation key and it has never been used before. the package was just opened prior to using it. been with eset since v2 and just never had a issue with these which is why i was worried when it didnt work okay.

hmm okay will try to convert this one and see what happens. in the past the activation key would work fine.

its the xxxx-xxxx-xxxx etc as printed inside the box do i need to convert it over through the website to the eav-xxxx

i bought a bunch of these because i asked eset if the lic keys would ever be no good and the answer i was given by cust support through email as well as marcos over at wilders was they will not expire. i tried using one today and its telling me the key is expired. this one was still shrink wrapped prior to using it so no way its been used before. tried a few times with the same code and same response from ess. so now will all my (i still have a handful of these for use down the line when newegg had them on blowout i bought the max allowed because eset told me they would never expire for use) keys do this or is this a fluke with this one?? please let me know asap.

i just now saw this i will try this tomm and report back.

imo not a eset issue. does the same with avira, webroot, and norton installed. i see the same issue. i actually reportd this to another av company thinking it was them until i saw the issue with all of the above mentioned as well as eset. i have also seen the slow loading as well and the freezing for me started back further than you are saying but i run the beat firefox so maybe the issue was there from the beat and moved down to the stable (not knowing which channel you are on with firefox)

i have seen this also but as others said sometimes the memory use drops way down to around 60-70 and at times i have seen it as high as over 300mb.

been a nod32 user since v2 and its always been one of my absolute favorites. i happen to be testing my speeds last night because something seemed off with my upload speeds so i started testing them and found that my upload speeds are VERY slow with eset ess v8 installed. i have a fiber 150/150 connection and download speeds are not an issue upload speeds are VERY slowed down. on speedtest for example my 150 upload speeds slow down to between 9 and 26 (ran the test with various server choices)?? yes they get that much slower. i tried to disable eset fully both real time and firewall with no changes. still slowed down. i uninstalled eset and my speeds after the reboot went up to 145-160 as they should be. i tested this on three machines at home. to double check i changed NOTHING else and went and reinstalled eset on these three machines and rebooted after the install and upload speeds dropped back to 9-26 again. i went to my office this morning to check one of those machines. same result. once i uninstalled eset the upload speeds went back to normal. what within eset would cause this, seeing as it seems to only affect my upload speeds. it is not just this computer and has shown the same results on 4 machines none of which have the same programs installed or the same hardware. the only common things on them are windows 7 x64 and office 2013. the only way to correct this was to fully remove eset disabling it did not fix the issue. i never saw this result with v7 as far as i know, i never noticed enough to test it anyway.