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Sophos Wireless Knowledge Base Blog Endpoint Security… Sophos Endpoint Software lol failed to connect firewall fix Failed to connect to the firewall… Members Knowledge Base Cancel This group requires membership for participation - click to join Thread Info State Verified Answer Date ElIrldanés Date 27 Apr 2011 4:13 AM Replies 1 reply Subscribers 1 subscriber Views 268 views English Suggested Have a cool product idea or improvement? We'd love to hear about it! Click here to go to the product suggestion community Failed to connect to the firewall driver, error 2. Please ... contact ... support Whenever I start my PC or attempt to restart the Sophos Firewall service I get the following error: 4/25/2011 5:28:53 pm Failed to connect to the firewall driver, error 2. Please restart your computer and, if the symptoms persist, contact Sophos technical support. How do I fix this? :12333 Cancel All Responses Answers Only jak 0 27 Apr 2011 1:41 PM Hi, Error 2 usually suggests file not found:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681382(v=vs.85).aspx I can only assume that the driver file or files are not there, i.e. \windows\system32\drivers\scfdriver.sys\windows\system32\drivers\scfndis.sys You could also run from a command prompt:driverquery | find "scf"to see if the above are loaded or run msinfo32 and take a look under:"Software environment" - "System drivers"If they are not there, I would suggest a reinstall might be the easiest fix. Regards, Jak:12339 Sophos Footer T&Cs Help Cookie Info Contact Support © 1997 - 2016 Sophos Ltd. All rights reserved.
of you came across this firewall error2 which stops all the traffic and prompt for a reboot, post to the reboot it works fine but the solution is intermittent after few attempts the issue is same and asks for reboot no permanent solution for this error Tried un-installing firewall component even sophos re-install did not work at last re-built was the final option Failed to connect to the firewall driver, error %2. Please reboot your system and if symptoms persist, contact technical support. your suggestions are most appreciated Reply Subscribe RELATED TOPICS: Firewall error on Spiceworks come again and again Firewall 500 Error My computer keeps showing firewall error when i have..   7 Replies Jalapeno OP wizechatmgr Dec 11, 2010 at 9:07 UTC Which OS is this on https://community.sophos.com/products/endpoint-security-control/f/sophos-endpoint-software/2076/failed-to-connect-to-the-firewall-driver-error-2-please-contact-support or is it a dedicated appliance? Desktops? Laptops? Any encryption in use? 0 Pimiento OP kamesh Dec 12, 2010 at 1:13 UTC hi, Its just a normal PC installed with Sophos, Av working fine but issues with firewall asking for reboot. No encryption used when tried to un-install the firewall component and tried to install again resulted in 1920 error Collected pml logs to check for the permission but no go 0 Chipotle OP Barry3116 Dec 12, 2010 at 7:06 UTC https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/121637-firewall-error-2 A virus or something like a bot on your computer? Some personal firewalls block any and all traffic when a bot is detected. Does it happen after you go to a web site, open a programme or something? 0 Datil OP John2851 Dec 13, 2010 at 12:46 UTC Using Sophos Enterprise Console? Firewall policies? 0 Pimiento OP kamesh Dec 15, 2010 at 4:36 UTC yes we use Sophos enterprise console to set the policies and there are no virus alerts on the machine as sophos av component is working fine I even escalated this issue with Sophos vendor but they wasted lot of time in analyzing the logs and asked to collect the PML logs wihile running the firewall component to check for any permission issue but no success 0 Pimiento OP castleforce Dec 15, 2010 at 6:07 UTC Is it only happening to one PC or many? sophos runs on macs and microsoft so which are you using? I've come across similar problems with McAfee inthe past and I guess end point firewalls can be temporamental. Does the problem happen when you're offline as well or only when connected to the network? I guess you'll need to narrow down the potential conflicting applications until you find what it's crashing with but sophos should be able to narrow that from the logs. 0 Pimiento OP kamesh Dec 17, 2010 at 5:00 UTC i came across two similar issue which run on Microsoft As per the user update the problem arises when he