[911pchelp]

Hi! (if this isn't the right forum I'm sorry and I'll move it)

Have 2 PC's - mine and daughter's .... both with Win XP and Zonealarm (mine SP2 - Daughter's SP1)

Problem: her PC shows (via Task Mgr) that vsmon.exe is running constantly and uses btwn 60% and 95% of CPU .... on my PC it doesn't (uses 0% most of time)

Should I remove ZA and reinstall on her PC?

This only started after I ran System Restore on her PC (to try to remove problems that just showed up in Outlook Express. (I think the SR point I used had a previous version of ZA - could that be the problem?? ZA won't start - I suspect it's waiting for vsmon to "do it's thing").

I just successfuly scanned her PC with AVG.

Edited by 911pchelp, 07 October 2006 - 07:21 PM.

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[Retired Tech]

You could try this

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Install it when you get the license key

[911pchelp]

Read description of Comodo FW .... it said it was for XP2 ... but daughter's PC is SP1

[Retired Tech]

Is there a particular reason for not installing SP2

[911pchelp]

Have heard all sorts of horror stories about upgraading to SP2 ... am afraid ... don't want to leave her w/o a system.

(Had problems w/my XP SP1 and bought a retail copy of XP w/SP2 .... so didn't upgrade mine.)

[911pchelp]

Took a few hours to remove ZA ... had to remove all refs to ZA (zllclient, etc) from startup so vsmon wouldn't be running ... then could remove and reinstall. Did that and vsmon behaved itself.

This is resolved but don't know how to 'mark the thread'

Thanks for the help Keith.

[Retired Tech]

Thank You for letting me know