matte

ESET, from what I've seen, seems to actually care about user privacy as well, a big factor for me.

A vulnerable driver is a piece of software which by itself is fully legitimate and safe, however the software itself contains a bug in the code which could be used by malicious actors to gain further control over your system, hence the "potentially unsafe" warning. You cannot remove the vulnerability from a driver yourself, usually the driver vendor (in this case MSI) will patch the bug in an update, so I would start by checking if there's an update to MSI Dragon Center available.

While ESET currently didn't seem to detect this particular program as a PUA, it could be detected as such in the future. However, other programs which serve a similar purpose would now most likely be detected as a PUA after the settings you've changed.

Seems to be a bug then. I received the pop up with a product that has been connected to ESET HOME since the product was activated, which was a few months ago.

It's in the Update tab, then click on the "Profiles" subsection, in there you should have "Updates" then you can find the "Ask before downloading update" option

Want to add my appreciation for the configurability of ESET as well, one of the reasons why I prefer this AV to other AV providers. Don't see how it could become a problem for "normal" users either since it's all tucked into the "Advanced Setup" part of the software as well.

On a positive note, the results from the malware test was really good. Happy to see that.

Do you only have the drives themselves selected? If for example the operating memory option is still selected, ESET can still scan files in other drives if they are currently opened in memory, could also explain why it's jumping around between disks.

Getting the same thing and is 99% a false positive. The domain is owned by Let's Encrypt and ESET seems to be the only provider reporting this as malicious as per VirusTotal EDIT: Already gone from VirusTotal, probably fixed?

I wouldn't worry about those being modified by malware. The drivers themselves aren't malicious, but ESET must have (recently?) been aware of a way to use these drivers in a malicious way (as in they are possibly vulnerable), and is blocking them to play it safe. Also, it only seems to care about the NVFlash utility's drivers themselves, and nothing with the BIOS files of your old GPU. As for why this happened out of nowhere, Windows usually does file indexing for Windows Search randomly in the background.