Epson Scan prompting for firewall access every time

Question

I’m running Mavericks on a mid-2007 iMac. I have an Epson 710 All-in-one printer. It is connected via USB to my Airport Extreme Base Station. That works fine for printing, though I have to connect to the scanner module via its built-in wifi. Although Image Capture works, Epson has a convenient (and more user friendly) application, Epson Scan. It has been recently supposedly updated for Mavericks, though I can’t see any obvious changes, and the version number seems to be the same. The issue is that EVERY time I launch Epson Scan, I get the “Do you want the application “EPSON Scan.app” to accept incoming network connections?” message. Obviously, I “Allow” each time. I’ve manually added the application to the Firewall exceptions list in System Preferences. I’ve opened the application’s package and put the enclosed application into the Firewall exceptions. I’ve repaired permissions. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled. I’ve tried booting and installing under a fresh test user account. I’ve contacted Epson, only to be told that "Actually this  message is not coming from Epson Scan, this is a part of your system (utility) that pop up. Epson scan does not require this option.” Helpful, eh?
This is the ONLY application I have this issue with. This problem has had me scratching my head at least as far back as Lion, if not to Snow Leopard.

Answer 1

Hi Louis, I had the same issue and managed to resolve it by removing Epson Scan from the Firewall! 
Hope this helps.
iMac (27-inch Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)