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<blockquote data-quote="cofer123" data-source="post: 1113547" data-attributes="member: 92976">I would like to have ESET back permanently, but they still have issues with their firewall rules. It&#039;s been like this since version 16.2 when they revamped its functionality and it still affects both home and commercial products.At least once a week (usually more often than that) it will randomly block trusted network connections like DHCP renewal, DNS servers, RDP or whatever rules you have defined for applications. The outcome is a brief loss of connectivity for the entire computer (when it blocks DHCP renewall or DNS) or loss of communication for the affected applications. If you don&#039;t use an application that establishes a long session connection like Remote Desktop, SSH, or a local server and only browse the internet, you might not even notice it. If you check ESET&#039;s network session for blocked connections, there will be plently of entries for the affected services/applications when the problem occurs.It happens on any of my devices (half a dozen computers) with distinct hardware and software components on different networks and different households. Their forums have reports of this to this day. It&#039;s intermittent thus hard to pinpoint, but it&#039;s there. Opening support tickets don&#039;t help, engaging on their forums don&#039;t help, so I simply cannot use it. The moment I remove ESET and use anything else like Defender, Kaspersky or Bitdefender, I never face these issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cofer123, post: 1113547, member: 92976"] I would like to have ESET back permanently, but they still have issues with their firewall rules. It's been like this since version 16.2 when they revamped its functionality and it still affects both home and commercial products. At least once a week (usually more often than that) it will randomly block trusted network connections like DHCP renewal, DNS servers, RDP or whatever rules you have defined for applications. The outcome is a brief loss of connectivity for the entire computer (when it blocks DHCP renewall or DNS) or loss of communication for the affected applications. If you don't use an application that establishes a long session connection like Remote Desktop, SSH, or a local server and only browse the internet, you might not even notice it. If you check ESET's network session for blocked connections, there will be plently of entries for the affected services/applications when the problem occurs. It happens on any of my devices (half a dozen computers) with distinct hardware and software components on different networks and different households. Their forums have reports of this to this day. It's intermittent thus hard to pinpoint, but it's there. Opening support tickets don't help, engaging on their forums don't help, so I simply cannot use it. The moment I remove ESET and use anything else like Defender, Kaspersky or Bitdefender, I never face these issues. [/QUOTE]

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