My network cards do not respond

[Alex]

Puzzle:My XP behaves as having hidden firewall. I cannot
go out with any protocol, but nobody can access mine on
any newtork card. It is C600 Dell.
Doesn't bother me no response to ping-ICMP, but cannot
run FTP server, nor X-windows server which is painful.
Don't have XP firewall checked on any newtork card
neither can see any firewall software installed.
Is there anybody who can explain this mystery?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Puzzle:My XP behaves as having hidden firewall. I cannot
go out with any protocol, but nobody can access mine on
any newtork card. It is C600 Dell.
Doesn't bother me no response to ping-ICMP, but cannot
run FTP server, nor X-windows server which is painful.
Don't have XP firewall checked on any newtork card
neither can see any firewall software installed.
Is there anybody who can explain this mystery?

Alex,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


Alex,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

Thanks Hans, but I did not find any solutio to my
problem. Actually I made 2 mistakes when describing it.
I can communicate through TCP/IP if I initiate the
session. Second it is D600 which is irrelevant. I have
discovered that event log bitches about something called
ThrueVector Service which is part of AlarmZone which I
don't recall installing. However it is posssible that
somthing similar was installed on my laptop then removed,
but some module still remained. Question is now: is there
any trace facility to find the module name?
It maybe worth adding that when booting safe with
networking does not have the symptom: I can ping the
laptop.
Regards, Alex

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have
discovered that event log bitches about something called
ThrueVector Service which is part of AlarmZone which I
don't recall installing. However it is posssible that
somthing similar was installed on my laptop then removed,
but some module still remained. Question is now: is there
any trace facility to find the module name?

Alex,

working on this hypothesis, which I also think seems likely, you
should check the startup programs, as described in
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxAutorunCauses.htm.

Then you should check the services. If you cannot recognize the
culprits by name, some detective work is needed. I would check
the Program Files folder for any likely subfolders, then search
the registry for such paths. With luck, you find such a path in
the area of

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Services

Then you can find out its name and use Control Panel to either
disable it in the Services administration or among the drivers
or, if all else fails, directly in the registry by changing the
Start parameter.

Hans-Georg

 

[Lance]

I had a similar problem with Cisco 3000 VPN Client. Using Add/Remove
Programs to remove Cisco did not remove some ZoneLabs firewall
components (vsutil.dll, vsdatant.sys, etc). Somehow, the Uninstall of
Cisco did not remove the firewall stuff and the ()(*&^% things activated
themselves and firewalled my computer.

I don't know if these are part of ZoneLab's "TrueVector" technology that
you are experiencing.

In my case, I had to do detective work at both the Cisco and ZoneLabs
support forums to find complete manual uninstall instructions for each
product. The links are below, maybe they can help you.

Lance
*****
Cisco - How to Manually Uninstall the Cisco VPN Client 3.5 and Later for
Windows 2000
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/471/vpn3K_uninstall.html#related

Uninstall ZoneAlarm
http://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/ManualUninstall.html
http://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/CompleteUninstallNonNT.html

(e-mail address removed) thought carefully and wrote on
9/12/2004 2:28 AM:

 

[Lance]

Lance thought carefully and wrote on 9/12/2004 6:55 AM:

I had a similar problem with Cisco 3000 VPN Client. Using Add/Remove
Programs to remove Cisco did not remove some ZoneLabs firewall
components (vsutil.dll, vsdatant.sys, etc). Somehow, the Uninstall of
Cisco did not remove the firewall stuff and the ()(*&^% things activated
themselves and firewalled my computer.

I don't know if these are part of ZoneLab's "TrueVector" technology that
you are experiencing.

In my case, I had to do detective work at both the Cisco and ZoneLabs
support forums to find complete manual uninstall instructions for each
product. The links are below, maybe they can help you.

Lance
*****
Cisco - How to Manually Uninstall the Cisco VPN Client 3.5 and Later for
Windows 2000
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/471/vpn3K_uninstall.html#related

Uninstall ZoneAlarm
http://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/ManualUninstall.html

http://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/CompleteUninstallNonNT.html

Sorry, forgot to add the following four things. These are specific to my
problem with Cisco 3000 VPN, but may help your detective efforts:

1) My Cisco was operating fine under SP1. I updated to SP2 which appears
to have broken Cisco and caused my "hidden" firewall components to
activate themselves.

2) In addition to the steps above, I also had to reset my TCP/IP stack:
How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 299357

<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299357&Product=winxp>

3) Some Cisco users had to add the following exception to Windows
Firewall (mine works fine without it):
Cisco VPN and XP sP2 Firewall
<http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servl...tion=outline@^1@@.1dd62b2d/0#selected_message>

4) Once all Cisco and ZoneAlarm components were removed and the stack
reset, I reinstalled Cisco VPN, unchecked "Stateful Firewall" in Cisco
and everything worked wonderfully (I could run Windows Firewall, start
VPN session with work computer and still utilize File/printer sharing on
my home network simultaneously).

Lance
*****