I have both Comodo Firewall 10 and ESET Antivirus 10 (Nod32) installed on Windows 10 Anniversary 64bit addition. In ESET 10 they started protecting the ESET service (erkn.exe). If I leave the service protected then it does not start on windows startup (it times out - even though I have set the timeout as high as 120000 milliseconds) but I can manually start it up after windows comes up. If I turn off the protection on the ESET service then everything comes up normally. How can I configure Comodo to let the ESET service come up in protected mode as it should?
You really shouldn’t run two AV/Firewall technologies at the same time, outside of Windows Defender/Firewall + some other.
And that is not my intent. I am only want to use Comodo for the firewall and ESET is for AV. That is how I have installed both. I purposely am not installing CIS (though I suspect that some of the function of CIS gets installed whether I want it to or not, even when just installing the Firewall). I don’t like to use suites as there is always some compromise on a function. I like to use best of breed for function.
Anyway, regardless as to how I want to use my system, I find it fascinating that no one can tell me how to configure Comodo to ignore a protected service on startup. Is there no configuration setting that will allow me to do as I want to?
Issue is a bit unclear. Try HIPS Settings > Detect shellcode injections > Exclusions > Add mentioned application.
windstorm, Thank you very much. That seem to have fixed the problem. I added both ekrn.exe and egui.exe to the exclude list, proteceted the ESET service in ESET and now it comes up on start protected.
This is the type of support that I come to expect from forums. Thank you again on you quick response.
BTW I will pass this on to the ESET forums for others that are having this problem
Hello eveybody,
with the new version of COMODO FIREWALL 10.0.1.6209 the “Detect shellcode injections” disapear!!! So I can’t add ekrn.exe and egui.exe to the exclude list! 
Where I can find it?
Thanks for your help.
Config:
Win 10 Anniversary update
AV: Eset nod32 10.0.390.0
Comodo Free Firewall 10.0.1.6209
Its located under advanced protection > miscellaneous.
[b]aaaah Thank You very very much !!
Appreciate[/b]
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