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Can't wait to read how the users respond in Wilders.

I would suggest perform a clean install by uninstalling it with ESET uninstaller tool and installing it with the offline installer.

IMHO, if you want to know if there is any preset rule from ESET firewall, I would suggest you to refer to the Zone and Rules editor and check on which services or connections are allowed from the preset rules. Note that the preset rules are grayed out and user-defined rules are bold, if I am not mistaken. You can check whether there is any preset rule for the SMB communication. However, I cannot give more details here as I have not used ESS for at least a month. Of course, there are definitely some preset rules that allow some inbound connections for core networking purpose and the ESET firewall with automatic mode most probably just works like the Windows Firewall. It blocks all non-initiated incoming communication as Marcos mentioned but I think there are definitely some core inbound connections are allowed from the preset rules.

But pls don't add it in ESET product as I don't want any add-on feature, an independent one is okay.

It really depends on the user's system specs. I have an old specs PC with Windows Vista installed in it and it only has 2GB ram. Imagine if ESET utilizes 300 MB of my memory, it can be somehow quite intensive to my ram. However, ESET of course won't bloat my system, no slow down and low impact.

Can I just update through the "Program Update"? Has anyone succeeded to update? How is it going so far?

It is not unwanted content, it is potentially unwanted content. Why? Because nowadays most of the users don't really read the installation agreement carefully, they just blindly click Next, Next, Next.... But lately they will then only realize that they have installed some bundled applications which they never really intended to install but carelessly provided the full consent to the installation process. This is why we need PUP detection and this is the main purpose of PUP detection.

As I said, there are differences between Potentially UNWANTED Application & Potentially UNSAFE Application. The picture which you have uploaded depicts clearly that ESET detected a Potentially UNSAFE Application in CCleaner . Most AVs have only implemented so-called Potentially UNWANTED Application detection but ESET has a unique detection namely Potentially UNSAFE Application detection. That's why you won't see any other AVs detect such Potentially UNSAFE Application and ESET's detection is not necessarily a false positive.

Please read all the replies in this post. Especially the link I provided to Virustotal. Eset is the ONLY antivirus telling people that Google Chrome and or Google Toolbar is malicious. Which clearly it is not. Hence the false positive detection. Here is the Virustotal link again.https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6a87e940dc0380a1f5fef889643d77d49835a922d4e0e791bd35e7b738eb8709/analysis/1427950206/ I don't wanna have conformism for this. The virus total is just for simple and plain reference. In other words, it could also mean that ESET detects such unsafe toolbar that other AVs fail to detect. Therefore, I would rather send the sample to ESET and determine whether the app is safe or unsafe. IMHO, ESET is the only AV that I have known that provides Potentially Unsafe Application detection. It is something different from Potentially Unwanted Application detection that is widely and generally implemented by most of the AVs.

The website address that was blocked by ESET looks dummy to me. A legitimate website would rarely have this type of website address. You should check on the IP and search for its geolocation and host. Moreover, it also has .cn on its website address, it is suspicious for me

Just go for Slim version and you won't get any PUA or PUP warning, problem solved. ESET detects it and does its job as it should, the toolbar is detected as unsafe might be because there are some vulnerabilities which could be led to exploit attack in the toolbar itself.

I would also suggest you to perform a clean install because ESET self-defense module might prevent itself from rolling back properly.

Yes it does. I think I'll just leave the start up scan disabled. Thanks! But I would recommend you to enable start up scan after each successful update to ensure and maintain maximum protection.

I do also have hang problem but the hang problem has already occurred before I installed ESET, so definitely not ESET problem. Are you sure it is related to ESET? My system will only hang when everytime I surf FB and few other websites.

It is indeed lightweight to my system although it has quite a high ram usage like 100+ MB. However, it is not lightweight to my Internet. I don't want to post any off topic here, but just to hope that ESET will come out with a better product and bring back all its lightweightness.

You can use ESET HIPS interactive mode for preventing zero day attack.

Can't say that.I use it also on an other laptop(not the fastest)and it is not heavy at all,only during scan it is really heavy.But I must admit Eset is lighter and has no problems during scannning compressed archives. Lol == At first, I misread your name as "Marcos". Hahaha... Sorry for that.

Not sure about this. I don't think ESET will fail to work properly if Windows FW is completely disabled. If this is the case, then there is no point having ESS firewall installed in the system. However, ESET FW is implemented with Windows Filtering Platform but that shouldn't be the case unless disable Windows FW would also disable the Windows Filtering Platform.

Let's just wait for ESET 9

I had actually only cleared the cache for the first time before I tried the pre-release update. Yes, to revert back, you just have to check regular mode but then your update cache will be cleared and regular update will then be downloaded to replace your pre-release update after you reboot your system.

Thanks for the positive feedback. ESET indeed has low system impact. Besides, I wouldn't trust any testing organization or any other sources about the AV detection and performance as the results are always questionable. I would rather prefer to try and test it myself.

With ESS installed, could you try temporarily disabling ESET Lightweight filter in your network adapter setup to see if it makes a difference in terms of browsing and upload speed? To solve Chrome issue with ESS/EAV, Chrome exclusion under Protocol Filtering had worked. But I didn't test it for long so couldn't say for sure PF is the culprit. Currently running EAV, if I get time will install ESS & test. Currently running EAV & since Chrome updated from .89 to .101, no probs yet. And ESS doesn't disable Win FW. Win Control Panel shows Win FW disabled & managed by Eset. But Win FW Advanced Settings shows all, Domain/PVT/PUB as ON. With ESS installed & all 3 networks manually disabled in Win FW, Why do I still get sometimes network selection window from both Win FW & ESS FW? It maybe means that ESET doesn't have enough privilege to completely turn off the Win firewall. Anyway, excluding Chrome from ESET PF is never a permanent solution. Installed ESS now & will report any probs/findings here. Is it a bug ESS doesn't disable Win FW i.e Win CP shows disabled but Adv Sett shows enabled? And even if I disable all the 3 networks in Win FW Adv Sett, why do I still get network selection window from Win FW too? I dont get network selection window from Win FW on Comodo Internet Security installed. Weird. I do not have this Windows FW issue. I suggest that you just disable the Windows FW service by running "services.msc"(without the quotes), you may also set the Startup Type to Disabled.

With ESS installed, could you try temporarily disabling ESET Lightweight filter in your network adapter setup to see if it makes a difference in terms of browsing and upload speed? To solve Chrome issue with ESS/EAV, Chrome exclusion under Protocol Filtering had worked. But I didn't test it for long so couldn't say for sure PF is the culprit. Currently running EAV, if I get time will install ESS & test. Currently running EAV & since Chrome updated from .89 to .101, no probs yet. And ESS doesn't disable Win FW. Win Control Panel shows Win FW disabled & managed by Eset. But Win FW Advanced Settings shows all, Domain/PVT/PUB as ON. With ESS installed & all 3 networks manually disabled in Win FW, Why do I still get sometimes network selection window from both Win FW & ESS FW? It maybe means that ESET doesn't have enough privilege to completely turn off the Win firewall. Anyway, excluding Chrome from ESET PF is never a permanent solution.

I would also suggest that you perform a full scan in safe mode and see if ESET is able to find and clean any traces of that malware.

You may need to untick the scheduled automatic update task after user logon to prevent from reproducing the issue.