Finding hidden firewall driver

Hi All,

I had installed Kerioa Firewall 4 software in past and removed it.
Unfortunatelly there remained some trash on the PC, which I removed
manually (all files and all registry entries).

I installed ZoneAlarm and removed it. No problems here.

But it seems, that something has survived, that causes some network
problems.

After a normal boot it looks as if no firewall is installed, but when I
remove all network component ans re-boot, I get the following error
message:

Firewall Driver: There isn't any network component installed.

PC then hangs up. I have to install the network components to be able to
boot.

But where is that unwanted Firewall Driver? And how can I get rid of it?

OSKAR

"Oskar Busch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:z9epj9ewslig.7vw5br54mnq1$.(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi All,
>
> I had installed Kerioa Firewall 4 software in past and removed it.
> Unfortunatelly there remained some trash on the PC, which I removed
> manually (all files and all registry entries).
>
> I installed ZoneAlarm and removed it. No problems here.
>
> But it seems, that something has survived, that causes some network
> problems.
>
> After a normal boot it looks as if no firewall is installed, but when I
> remove all network component ans re-boot, I get the following error
> message:
>
> Firewall Driver: There isn't any network component installed.
>
> PC then hangs up. I have to install the network components to be able to
> boot.
>
> But where is that unwanted Firewall Driver? And how can I get rid of it?
>
> OSKAR

hi there :>

IIRC you have already checked msconfig for unwanted startup items .
correct?
is there anything in your autoexec.bat or config.sys that looks suspect?

if someone else has some thoughts ...please jump in..

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:01:42 +0200, Oskar Busch wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I had installed Kerioa Firewall 4 software in past and removed it.
> Unfortunatelly there remained some trash on the PC, which I removed
> manually (all files and all registry entries).
>
> I installed ZoneAlarm and removed it. No problems here.
>
> But it seems, that something has survived, that causes some network
> problems.
>
> After a normal boot it looks as if no firewall is installed, but when I
> remove all network component ans re-boot, I get the following error
> message:
>
> Firewall Driver: There isn't any network component installed.
>
> PC then hangs up. I have to install the network components to be able to
> boot.
>
> But where is that unwanted Firewall Driver? And how can I get rid of it?
>
> OSKAR

For everyone who might need this information:

Kerio seems to use "fwdrv.vxd". In my case in the Windows\System directory.

In the registry the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\fwdrv is
responsible for loading.

I hope this maybe helps anyone with similar problems.

OSKAR.

KEYWORS FOR SEARCH ENGINES: FIREWALL, REMOVE DRIVER, KERIO, FWDRV.VXD

"Oskar Busch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:01:42 +0200, Oskar Busch wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I had installed Kerioa Firewall 4 software in past and removed it.
>> Unfortunatelly there remained some trash on the PC, which I removed
>> manually (all files and all registry entries).
>>
>> I installed ZoneAlarm and removed it. No problems here.
>>
>> But it seems, that something has survived, that causes some network
>> problems.
>>
>> After a normal boot it looks as if no firewall is installed, but when I
>> remove all network component ans re-boot, I get the following error
>> message:
>>
>> Firewall Driver: There isn't any network component installed.
>>
>> PC then hangs up. I have to install the network components to be able to
>> boot.
>>
>> But where is that unwanted Firewall Driver? And how can I get rid of it?
>>
>> OSKAR
>
> For everyone who might need this information:
>
> Kerio seems to use "fwdrv.vxd". In my case in the Windows\System
> directory.
>
> In the registry the key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\fwdrv is
> responsible for loading.
>
> I hope this maybe helps anyone with similar problems.
>
> OSKAR.
>
> KEYWORS FOR SEARCH ENGINES: FIREWALL, REMOVE DRIVER, KERIO, FWDRV.VXD

nice going :> thanks for posting back