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Understood. I was concerned that it was starting to act funny again. If that's normal then I'll ignore it. Thanks.

It only last for several minutes like you said. I don't have a huge number of desktop items. Most are shortcuts. I have about 70 total and 18 of them are either very small .txt, .lua, .odt and some small .pdf files. I'm pretty careful about not cluttering up my desktop. In desktop properties it says 350 MB total. It has not done one of those super long full system scans and I have excluded folders and exe's that I don't want it to do.

It's doing it again. This is really getting frustrating. When I mouse over the icon in the system tray, it says "startup scan in progress". My computer has been running all day. Something is wrong.

Hey Marcos, it looks like uninstalling and reinstalling fixed the problem. I haven't had any of those random full system scans for the last week. I'll keep an eye on it for the time being and hopefully I won't be having any more trouble with it. Thanks for the help!

I reinstalled everything so I'll give it some time and see if it's any better. Thanks.

You'll have to pardon me Marcos but I'm not exactly sure what you want me to do here. Can you explain in detail please? I don't want to mess something up.

Marcos, It did it again. This time it started at 2:14:29 and it took 30 minutes to complete. It scanned every drive on my system. I tried to get a picture of my D drive but I wasn't quick enough. I have not made any changes since the last scan. It's just doing full scans on its own. I did install a brand new drive recently so I'm wondering if moving files around did something to ESET. You can see that it's not finding anything though and I had installed this drive several months ago and this problem started more recently. I installed a second NVME 1 TB drive so my C and D are the exact same type of drive. My E drive is SSD, and my data drive is an older spin drive. Something is triggering this event. I collected the log again right after the scan was complete. Do you think uninstalling and reinstalling the application would help? eis_logs.zip

Yes, I'll do it next time I see it happening.

Here's the log file Marcos. eis_logs.zip

I've never scheduled any "on demand" scans. I've never cancelled any running scans except for yesterday when I was just trying to see how it impacts my system. You didn't answer my question. Is there anywhere you can set the scheduled time or is it just based on computer activity and you have to exclude files and folders?

I understand all of that. I can see it scanning when I start my system or make changes. However, I rarely make system changes. I occasionally install the latest Nvidia drivers, update Notepad++ or Libre Office. I'm talking about the entire file system scans that happen seemingly randomly. I was working on a project 2 days ago and my system suddenly started slowing down and I couldn't figure out what was happening. I looked at the taskbar and ESET was doing a complete file scan and ran for 15 minutes and messed up what I was doing. This seems to have started fairly recently, within a few updates. Almost all other anti-virus and malware software allows you to set the time and day it does a full system scan. I'm talking about that. Other than excluding files and folders I can't see anywhere you can do that.

I'm pretty sure that this is normal for the software to do scans on its own but it's annoying when I'm in the middle of doing something. And it seems random at times because I've seen them happening in the morning and evenings. I already know that I can schedule scans and know how to do it. How do I alter or edit the time schedule of built in scheduled scans. Like set it for every Saturday at noon. I've searched and can't find any information on this subject. Maybe I missed something.

Almost 10 days now and not one single response? Do the tech people from eset bother to read any of this?

I have the following ports open for my Win10 Pro server for various games we run as a group. These are required so I can't alter them. (ARMAIII) 2302-2306, 2344, 2345, (DCS SRS) 5002, (DCS) 10308 and (LOTATC) 10310. I noticed some high activity on my internet connection a couple days ago and disconnected the system from the net. I spoke with the developers and was told that a lot of port sniffing goes on but they can't really get past the router firewall and that the Windows firewall also protects them. All the remote desktop stuff is disabled and the firewall is active. There are no applications on the server that can be used for remote desktop access either. I've enabled the success and failure logs for Windows security logging and haven't seen anything unusual. ESET Internet security has been working really well so far but I haven't seen anything in the logs and my questions are: Are these ports protected by it? Why haven't I seen anything in the logs? Is there anything additional I can do to protect it?