Cannot get rid of vsmon.exe process

September 3, 2007

Years ago, I installed a free version of Zone Alarm, and uninstalled it

after a few months after SP2 came along and I began using a hardware

firewall. Zone Alarm is long gone and I've done countless registry cleanups

and spyware/malware scans since then. I recently noticed that vsmon.exe is

still a running process, slowly increasing it's memory pull up to 70Meg +

over several days depending on online access. Well, this should be no

problem, I figure. I disable the process in services, reboot and delete the

windows/system32/zonelabs directory where it lived as well as dig in the

registry and delete the reference. The process is not showing now at all,

but....IE and Firefox do not work. My mail and news readers work fine, but

the browswers don't. Any ideas? I wound up restoring the process and files

to get functionality back but want it gone....it shouldn't be there and is a

memory pig.

September 3, 2007

Re: Cannot get rid of vsmon.exe process

hello Augustus you wrote

> Years ago, I installed a free version of Zone Alarm, and uninstalled

> it after a few months after SP2 came along and I began using a

> hardware firewall. Zone Alarm is long gone and I've done countless

> registry cleanups and spyware/malware scans since then. I recently

> noticed that vsmon.exe is still a running process, slowly increasing

> it's memory pull up to 70Meg + over several days depending on online

> access. Well, this should be no problem, I figure. I disable the

> process in services, reboot and delete the windows/system32/zonelabs

> directory where it lived as well as dig in the registry and delete

> the reference. The process is not showing now at all, but....IE and

> Firefox do not work. My mail and news readers work fine, but the

> browswers don't. Any ideas? I wound up restoring the process and

> files to get functionality back but want it gone....it shouldn't be

> there and is a memory pig.

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