Manually uninstalling the Enterprise Client Firewall (ECF) from OfficeScan (OSCE) clients

- Updated:
- 2 Nov 2017
- Product/Version:
- OfficeScan 11.0
- OfficeScan 11.0
- OfficeScan XG
- OfficeScan XG.All
- Platform:
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
- Windows 2003 Standard Server Edition
- Windows XP Professional

Summary

This article shows how to manually uninstall the Enterprise Client Firewall from OSCE clients.

Details

To manually uninstall the ECF from a single OSCE client, do either of the following:

Change the ECF service mode:

Open the Windows Services console (services.msc).
Change the Startup type of the OfficeScanNT Firewall service to "Disabled". This change will remove the Firewall tab from the client console.
Restart the client machine.

Right-click My Network Places and click Properties.
Right-click Local Area Connection and click Properties.
On the General tab, select Trend Micro Common Firewall Driver and click Uninstall.

Uninstalling the CFW driver will exclude the client from subsequent Outbreak Prevention Policy deployments that include port blocking.

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Uninstall

Solution Id:

0122179

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