Why is OpenVPN modifying my third party drivers?

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desbest
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Why is OpenVPN modifying my third party drivers?

Post by desbest » Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:37 pm

Hello OpenVPN

I've been using https://www.mirekusoft.com/]Mirekusoft Install Monitor so that I can start to log the file and registry modifications of installed programs, so that I can see if it leaves any traces behind after I uninstall them.

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After uninstalling OpenVPN, Mirekusoft Install Monitor says that there's a lot of files that's been modified and traces left behind, after its uninstallation.

See here for details:
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2373075

However what concerns me is the files that contains the folder driverstore
Why is OpenVPN modifying my third party drivers? I thought they were only meant to install drivers, not modify any drivers that were already installed prior to OpenVPN's installation.

If the TAP or Wintun driver is uninstalled, as it should be after I uninstalled OpenVPN, then why do those lines in the log file exist? For context, the OpenVPN uninstaller should have already uninstalled TAP or Wintun, as I surely didn't see an uninstaller for either TAP or Wintun in the system settings.

And why are there 99 entries? Maybe I could accept 5, 10 or 15 but 99? Really?

I'm using Windows 10 21H2 and I was using OpenVPN 2.5.6 which was later upgraded to 2.5.7 before being uninstalled.
Last edited by TinCanTech on Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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