Updated to ESET Smart Security 8.0.304.0 - Freezing, disabled firewall, more

[malevolenthf 0]

I updated ESET to 8.0.304.0 about 20 minutes ago after I got a pop-up saying an update is available. I agreed and ESET re-installed for a process of about 3 minutes.

 

After this, I went to check out the new features or whatever, but the first thing I see is the 'Buy now' and 'activate' buttons, even though  I have a valid license for months to come.

 

Second thing I notice is that none of the buttons are actually doing anything, and worse. (I used to be able to toggle menus in the interface, but now I can't even get the pop-up to show from the taskbar, let alone the interface itself.)        It gets worse... whenever I click on the ESET logo in taskbar now (Which is a ! danger sign because the firewall isn't working properly) and try to use windows explorer my PC immediately freezes and I get a spinning circle over my wallpaper, and a normal arrow pointer on the taskbar, although none of the icons are clickable.

 

What do I do now? This only started happening when I updated!

[Marcos 5,070]

So far we've had very good experience with upgrade to v8 and millions of users upgraded smoothly. Please use the Uninstall tool in safe mode, then download and install v8 from scratch.