Just a heads up to other ESET users, from a thread found here: Eset and Task manager conflict or bug?
A recent ESET update is messing up with the performance monitors on Windows. The symptoms include GPU monitoring missing from Task Manager and other performance counters corrupted/missing in Performance Monitor. Upon starting Performance Monitor, the following error shows up:
As I described on the ESET forums, I was able to replicate the issue on an already compromised system:
A recent ESET update is messing up with the performance monitors on Windows. The symptoms include GPU monitoring missing from Task Manager and other performance counters corrupted/missing in Performance Monitor. Upon starting Performance Monitor, the following error shows up:
As I described on the ESET forums, I was able to replicate the issue on an already compromised system:
- Performance counters missing/corrupted;
- Restore them with lodctr /R on %windir%\SysWOW64 (running the command on the System32 folder was unsuccessful with an error code 2);
- Performance counters working again, no errors on Performance Monitor and GPU usage showing in Task Manager;
- Completely uninstall EIS;
- Performance counters still working;
- Install EIS again;
- Performance counters still working;
- Wait for EIS to fully update;
- Performance counters missing/corrupted with the same issues described above;
- Able to restore them again with lodctr /R
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