2 "Paralel Shared Network Adapter"s which I did not add.

They belong to Parallels, which you likely installed. They're responsible for sharing ethernet connections from within the virtual machine.

Cheers,
Jazz

I have the same problem you replied to here. I installed Parallels two computers ago and the settings have migrated to my Macbook Pro. Originally I had Parallels on an iBook G4. I don't want it now, have removed it but these ethernet adapters keep reinstalling on restart. How do I get rid of them?

I removed parallels at-least a month ago.

Then delete the connections.

Did you uninstall the app or just trash the app?

i was deleting "Parallels" preferences under my user account but apparently missed it in the HD folder. fixed now. the problem was that the adapters kept reloading on startup and deleting the connection would only shut it down until I restarted. But it is gone now. Thanks.

By the way, I was unaware that OSX employed an uninstall feature. I was taught to just trash an app then empty the trash to remove it. Don't know that I've ever seen "uninstall" in any of the folders?

pastorjohn wrote:
How do I get rid of them?

For you and the original poster:
Any application that needs system extensions (such as Parallels, VMWare, etc.) cannot be uninstalled by deleting the application. You must use the uninstaller that comes with it.

For someone else who may be reading this. PastorJohn's solution worked. I had this problem on my wife's iMac on which Parallels had been installed when we were using Leopard. I had upgraded to Snow Leopard as soon as it came out. I tried reinstalling Parallels 3.x but was unable to because she was running Snow Leopard.

So I ended up downloading the latest version of Parallels, installing it over the previous version, installing Ubuntu on Parallels, setup an account on Unbuntu, logged into it, 'shut down' Unbuntu, quit Parallels, restarted her computer, then reopened the Parallels .dmg file, chose Uninstall Parallels, waited while it uninstalled, went to System Preferences/Internet & Wireless/Network where there were two new Parallel Ethernet Network Adapters which I deleted, and did another restart. The good news is that the Parallel Network adapters were gone.

So, I have this problem as well and I've tried several things I've seen recommended here and elsewhere to no avail.

I ran the Parallels uninstaller (first thing I tried).
I deleted the two zombie entries from the network preferences.
I looked for the kext's under /System/Library/Extensions (they are not there).

But the connections keep reappearing whenever I reboot. What am I missing?