Comments on: Internet access blocked by ESET Firewall – Solution?

By: 黑帽SEO

黑帽SEO — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:46:50 +0000

Nice post…Thank you for sharing some good things!!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:12:58 +0000

I have to agree on the criticism. I have noticed these issues back in the 3 series and after removing ESET Smart Security,, I decided to try and reinstall (after good 6 months) because I absolutely loved it’s performance in the past..

My issues are not with internet connection as a whole but are definitely tied to winsock. There is nothing I haven’t done to re-set to clean up,, to modify,, so on,, the issue remains…

Considering the magnitude of the problem I agree that ESET should be A LOT more proactive about resolving this…

By: mieses

mieses — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:31:39 +0000

Every version of ESET’s firewall, from v3 to v4, has problems with basic issues such as renewing DHCP IP addresses. ESET seems to be hiding their heads in the sand. The documentation and knowledge base provide no help at all on such issues.

By: David

David — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:58:58 +0000

Installing Vesion 4 over version 3 causes serious problems, unistall and reinstall will fix many problems that occur if you install over an existing version. (ESET should check in the install script and not allow this!)
ESETs firewall is excellent in V 4, just because it finds high risk behavior risky isn’t a reason to knock it. There is no doubt that better explainations and faqs about certain conflicts should be documented for easy review, but if you configure correctly it is a fantastic product even running on a server where it “should’t be installed” and where it has to deal with very high traffic levels it works great. I love it, and V4 is a big improvement over 3 in my experience.

By: John Hobbs

John Hobbs — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:02:05 +0000

I had Firefox and Thunderbird logon problems. I found switching off Peer Guardian solved all of my problems. This is one of the problems I had that ESET picked up: 05/03/2010 11:14:51 Detected DNS cache poisoning attack 192.168.0.1:53 192.168.0.100:1290 UDP and also 16/03/2010 09:57:49 Packet blocked by active defense (IDS) 192.168.0.100:1275 78.33.33.73:80 TCP . ESET have suggested that I allow them to connect remotely to my machine and they will “investigate and remove the problem”

By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:25:57 +0000

Try running this in the run command on windows:

netsh winsock reset

This did the trick. I am now happy and it all works. Moderator, please remove my previous comment. Thanks.

By: Emman Carl P. Rubin

Emman Carl P. Rubin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:25:01 +0000

yup..i have the same problem here. Im from philippines and im also an avid and loyal supporter of eset. I installed eset smart security 4 business edition but then again in these past few days ny internet connection has many problems..it cant load and always ‘request time out’. when i ping it, it will take a long very looooooooooong time to establish a connection but after a few minutes the connections got problem and returend to a bad state – i always “TRY AGAIN” in firefox..

but when i uninstalled eset, my internet connection is now SO BETTER. i returned to my XP firewall, change to defaults and all is better, oh, its BEST. i then install ESET NOD32 virus scanner only for virus problems. I did not install anymore the FIREWALL feature..which is a feature on their smart security products..

i think eset has not made their firewall polished.

By: Patch

Patch — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:24:51 +0000

Same experience here.

Their firewall/Suite is no were near as polished as their Virus scanner/nod32.
The problem was recently exacerbated by their incomplete beta testing (1 public beta, “final release” retaining most of the ). ESET defence that their software operates at a low level & is complex then becomes a poor excuse.
The unfortunate consequence is many users have lost confidence in ESET product. I know it is now the first place I look when my computers perform poorly.

I assume they will eventually fix the fire wall. Unfortunately it will be hard to judge from just reading their site as negative comments are heavily moderated.