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Cleaning IronWall

IronWall EGD (Endpoint Guardian Daemon) is currently released for pilot users & early adopters as a result at times the software might not work with somes systems. As a result this guide helps to clean up IronWall EGD's internal files & config for maintaining optimum system stability.


Before you remove IronWall from your system

  • Make sure you've an active internet connection.
  • If your endpoint is quarantined for some reason & IronWall is unable to reach the IronDen servers wait for 5 minutes before you proceed.
  • Issue reactivation command from the console to the endpoint before you proceed with uninstallation just in case


Cleaning process

  • Open Command Prompt, Powershell or Terminal as Administrator
  • Run sc.exe delete IronWallEGDMain to delete IronWall's persistent service
  • Run sc.exe delete WinDivert to delete WinDivert's persistent service
  • Kill IronWall.exe parent process from the task manager
  • Run cd "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IronWall EGD\" to change to installation directory
  • Run .\IronWall.exe --clean-tentacles to remove any existing system-wide configuration of IronWall from the system
  • Uninstall IronWall by going to Apps in Settings