Information about vsmon.exe file

"vsmon.exe" belongs to ZoneAlarm personal firewall, which monitors Internet traffic and generates alerts by following the security rules that users configure in Zone Alarm.

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Rating Opinion From ZoneAlarm Personal FireWall which monitors internet traffic and generates alerts Alex Its just a mandatory Zone Alarm file. steve Zone Alarm True Vektor Monitor  link for more info Funonline Associated with ZoneAlarm personal firewall. Beth part of zonealarm. install the latest version, the older version have security bug This is only a True Vector Monitor from ZoneAlarm. It take alot of memory Kev A zone alarm file, takes quite some memory and CPU usage sometimes piece of crap software that drains your CPU jonas I haven't not installed Zone Alarm in my pc, and I have vsmon.exe in the task manager! gabberino84 gehört zu zoneAlarm, bei hohen cpu auslastung,: zonealarm neustarten ... sometimes it explode and starts using CPU slowing all gehört zum programm zonealarm pascal W. zone alarm shit, that eats up almost the whole cpu-time: restart zone alarm to get your system back under control! kolja Duno what happens... all of a sudden drains your CPU usage ABdullah works ok but sometimes it stops responding Läuft ganz ruhig im Hintergrund ) found this file when i was infected with worm. dont have zonealarm installed. never did.  link for more info moorey Gehört zu ZoneAlarm (neigt dazu manchmal viel RAM/CPU zu fressen) Dave In my case it is genrating a lot of CPU usage. Checked and it seems to be doing full virus scan. Whoa! Worm_RBot.BO  link for more info sosuke Essential part of zone alarm- ignore 'dangerous' rating When I had ZoneAlarm shutted down the vsmon.exe blocked all my traffic to the Internet. Very irritating and it took a while before I found the damn file and could remove ZoneAlarm. Joakim i have never installed zone alarm, but this program showed up as infected by a virus when i ran trendmicro housecall.... Frißt langsam aber unaufhaltsam Speicher, dadurch wird mehr Speicher ausgelagert auf Festlatte, was den Computer immer langsamer macht! Ein richtiger Nimmersatt. Alle paar Tage mal Rechner booten (oder Zonealarm neustarten). Martin Bei einem sehr hohen traffic kann es passieren das die vsmon.exe mehr als 90% der Leistung für sich benötigt. Meine Lösung: Unter - Alerts & Log - Event Logging auf off stellen. Hoffe konnte damit einigen helfen. photec Hintergrundwächterkontrollprogramm von ZA PRO, ungefährlich. Selecta Verlangsamt den Internet - Zugriff Ironeagle Der Prozess bläht sich mit der Zeit auf und kostet dann viel performence Willy Habs mit MSIti32.exe(Virus) bekommen. Ohne ZoneAlarm stürtzt Computer ab. BroodwarPlayer ich habe das teil, ohne zone-alarm intalliert zu haben. könnte bösartig sein! mjm Its Part of Zone alarm, if its taking CPU its your problem, spyware etc. piggybacking, not the software it self, it has a very small footprint Scythe Worm_Rbot (Check your risk with SecurityTaskManager) Nebrezian Drains CPU usage...restart to fix Kayne Seems to have a large memory leak, if left on over 24 hours it has used over 700 MB of memory! Bill It misbehaves shutdown zonealarm and it keeps running can block a vnc session unknowingly Michael Hickman Zone alarm file. It does seem to take CPU when the PC is idle but drops it as soon as another program requires it..I have found Zone Alarm/suite to be a good, reliable product Philip Very Flakey- CPU HOG nothing but headache FXB a valid part of ZoneAlarm, however possibility tat it could be ome infected/some viruses using its name. just a thought. Lord V It does consume cpu memory. Shut down ZA and then restart it and everything will work fine Charlie It uses a lot of cpu. Strange... maybe itŽs a bug or something like that. To fix it, you have to restart the application. Maurício Rotta ZA firewall file, duh if its doing a virus scan its going to take cpu resources, disable the Anti Virus monitoring if you dont like it.. learn to configure before complaining mellamoandy It watches for internet port access to your pc and blocks malicious scanning attempts.  link for more info c On email download, spun my CPU up to 100% and seemed in an endless loop. Had to restart machine Brad Zone alarm - after using PC for about 1 hr grinds to a halt and have to reset Graham part of zonealarm. essential and not dangerous, unless you don't have ZA installed (virus alert!) sekhui The TrueVector Service is the firewall component of Zone Alarm. If you have Zone Alarm installed and rely on it for protection, LEAVE IT!!! People who say it is dangerous are just trying to get you to turn your firewall off.  link for more info CmdrTaco used as part of zone alarm but be careful which zonealarm options you choose since it can go wild. Mark There is a worm that poses as vsmon.exe follow the link to learn more.  link for more info Urban It slows my PC down as it uses alot of my CPU Rico Suarve tied up CPU and I/O to freeze my system - seemed to go "bezerk" - took almost all my memory. Phill ZoneAlarm crap. It uses up my RAM and CPU. JB Critical component of ZoneAlarm, firewall application/  link for more info Chusha Kobayashi This memory hog is also a part of eTrust EZ Armor by Computer Associates (licensed from Zone Alarm).  link for more info krade vsmon.exe ist integraler Bestandteil der Personal Firewall ZoneAlarm. Typische Probleme treten auf, wenn Filesharingprogramme wie EMule, KaZaA o.ä. benutzt werden. Hier schaukelt sich die Prozessorlast immer weiter hoch. Bis ZoneLabs eine funktionierende Version liefert, hilft nur ein Neustart der Firewall. Ralf I noticed that VSMON is connecting to my ISP - not sure why therefore have blocked it with no affect, as yet trmbr zonealarm vector :) ZA, after a while on the net, the process eats up the memory. Papparotti My ZA (vsmon.exe) used over 170mb of memory after few hours. When I tried to shut it down (vsmon.exe) I couldn't, but instead it released memory only to fill it again in a minute... Yarosh It hogs memory - up to 50 megs and at times even more. It works even when ZAP is turned off.. I had it running like that for weeks without know that it is not a MS system file. Very irritating, had to uninstall ZAP  link for more info ahp I don't mind vsmon doing its thing from time to time. Zonealarm is undoubtly the best firewall on the market, keeps me 100% safe Nicked hat manchmal ne enorme speicherauslastung... (bei mir gerade 25.000 K tendenz steigend) das bremst das sys ungemein As of version 5.0 or 5.1 , zonealarm's vsmon.exe does have a bad memory leak. Version 4.5 seems to be fine. Guile Version 5.01.xxxx frisst unaufhaltsam ram bei allen filesharing programmen. mittlerweile auch edonkey. Crono zone alarm file - severely degrades System performance occasionally by sucking up Cpu time. don It hogs about 50% of my cpu time, but only when running a Virus Scan, then 0% bigbass slows your pc down something cronic. takes up to 80% CPU usage at times hans Blocked websites (server not found)... ie and firefox JJN it's just the virus scan that hogs the hdd... If no Zone alarm installed - WORM,VIRUS!!  link for more info Mr.G-C vsmon.exe using 320Mb after 2 days - evil darce It is a legitimate file in the repair folder of Zone Labs Integrity Client, this program will never request for network access. But there is a virus known as RBOT that also is using this filename to confuse the computer user. See the document on the ZoneLabs website.  link for more info Eric Van Hoof this file is danguerous with Emule Kad network  link for more info SpeGase* TrueVector Service, an essential part of Zone Alarm firewall.  link for more info Derchalia pain in the butt - restart ZA to clear JB this "vsmon.exe" file is a pain in the but cos its eats up ur memory ,so u need to close and restart ZA but other than that its a good firewall, just an issue that the devopers need to fix Robo Part of zone alarm can stop internet responding. beowulf It's the Zone Alarm antivirus -- that's why it slows your PC down -- be patient and let it finish Professor Bloggins ZoneAlarm file which caused enormous disk activity and thus slowed my PC. After stop/start of ZA everything is oke Foxbox its slowing cpu big time not sure what i got but when i watch dvds and play internet it lages up chips:) Not sure if it's high cpu consuming issue is related to eMule - N!K - It's a Zone Alarm file. If you have ZA installed and it's "hogging" memory...it's running an auto-virus check probably. End the scan or wait for it to finish and you'll see it drop back down. Common Sense... Steven I have Zone Alarm, vsmon.exe is not dangerous but it uses a lot of ram and cpu!! ItalyMafiaSpaghetti vsmon in Zone version 4.5 very CPU consumable also! It may use lots of CPU memory on a certain perior.I recommend Scan HD for viruses,if none found then restart PC and everythink Okay.Zone alarm file.It may become Very irritating sometime. PDP Eats cpu time especially when downloading using emule. Emule has to be closed down by task manager. Spinning Cow This file is made for control and check your mail traffic, if you are well user of your email and know how files you can open, you can turn down this mail proteccion at zone alarm console, and you can see how your use of cpu turn down and incresase you speed machine Abraham Genoves It has the highest I/O read of all processes on my laptop, making it swap as hell regularly. oli IT lags my computer urns88 It causes your internet to be blocked because it thinks your infected. Just open your Task Manager with ctrl+alt+del, and end the process "vsmon.exe" it worked for me. It also will ocasonally use up all your cpu and cause your computer to crash. Conker This file is recently replacing by not-yet-known virus [trojan]. It has the same name as ZoneAlarm vsmon Paul M. - Poland I have the file in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Zonelabs A helpful Zone Alarm file, but can slow the comp sometimes. Jason pcpitstop says that 10.7 % of the computers they scan have vsmon but less than half a percent have Zone Alarm. Nevertheless they ID it as being part of zone alarm. A Friend it uses 400mb memory after 12 hours!!! Its a normal/required file for Zone Alarm Don morris seit der Installation arbeitet mein PC sehr langsam und manchmal wird alles blockiert. Ich muss mein ADSL Verbindung am Tage manchmal bis zu 4-5 mal löschen und dann neu aufladen Hülya Damn true vector, slows down pc like shit. Really irritating. Taufique vsmon slows down system after hours of running bye chewing up memory. Use task manager to end process and it will ask if you wish to restart and the problem is fixed and system resolves itself. Takes 24+hours to become a problme Bearinc I do not know what it is for but vsmon.exe just eat up all my memory (Win XP). Otherwise ZA is cool z uses only 14% of my resources and that is only during a virus scan. it does slow the system down. takes a long time(~20min) to do a scan though. Darrow My computer hangs up since I installed the latest Zone Labs I will now dump it-Vsmon(not responding) continuasly John L seems to caise memory leakage +++ Rich N I concur with Crono and Guile, the most recent versions of ZA seem to have huge issues with leakage. I was fine before these last 2. Perhaps it will be solved in future releases. Tim Good progy......been using it for a bit now.......ill give up the cpu to protect my computer mike I noticed file started to take up my cpu power when the antivirus kicked in. Not to mention that ZA never told me it was scanning... faded CPU Hog Astrogirl can not be deleted w task manager; persists even tho zone alarm has been uninstalled & system rebooted; tried to uninstall thru ad remove but could not find it. tsfinder@yahoo.com zonealarm Peter ZoneAlarm file. It takes more CPU and memory every hour. Until I have to restart ZoneAlarm. I'm using Zonealarm 3.0 serig switching off the automatic update function in ZoneAlarm seems to stop the cpu and memory problems on my machine solution Part of ZoneAlarm. ZoneLabs licenses its technology to third parties, so it can be found after installing other products (Cisco VPN Client?). Not Dangerous but sometimes causes a memory leak. Aethereal zonealarm pro 3.7 installed this file. Required for safe surfing. passing Bestandteil von Zone Alarm. Hat bei mir 90% des CPU gebraucht. Nach Neustart von Firewall behoben! der Rohrdesigner Tries to phone home to hs2.zonelabs.com even when ZA configured not to do auto updates. Brings up DUN window about once an hour. PITA.  link for more info dillthedog VSMON is the Virus Monitor. Uses Increased RAM when running Virus Scan. Zonealarm Fan stands for Very Small Mamal Online Numbskull neil diamond if the only instances you have are in folders called zone alarm then its file. just copy the one in the repair folder of the instal directory of ZA and paste into the Zonelabs folder in widows\system32. worked fine for me Stubbz_nzl It takes alot of ram and cpu, it fails the panda unknown treaths service. Use sygate firwall. Good and stabel, or use pandas firewall. Not as good and let things trough, but should work for normal net surfing and gaming. If mp3, movie and program downloads from other computers on network, it is unsafe Viagra part of zone alarm. i have had no problem. only uses 5mb when idle on my machine Dahvid part of zonealarm, occaisionally uses a lot of cpu when i run emule, restarting emule fixes this. perhaps a bug in emule? altho i suspect it has something to do with not having port forwarding setup correctly.. trent nur ne zonealarm anwendung die nix kaputt macht... Ruhla Zone Alarm file - When i try to download stuff etc it goes mad and takes up all my CPU time and i have to reset my computer. Never done it before... Just after i reformatted my computer and installed it again. Morri Eats up CPU and is blocking all activities.Perhaps is a virus but is not detected by antivirus software Ender this is the core file for zone alarm, not dangerous but blocks pop ups and intrusions into your system. zone alarm is a very reliable product Khan Look on the Zone Alarm site. There is a virus/worm (WORM_RBOT ) that exists in a file with the name vsmon.exe. But it sits in the system directory. the genuine file sits in the zonealarm directory. What I want to know is why the genuine one keeps grabbing more and more and more memory until a reboot is needed. Yes I do have the latest version.  link for more info Gary It gets annoying sometimes, it drains 98%+ of your CPU just 3 days before your trail day is over. Ke Part of Zone Alarm It crashed my system. Get rid of it. I dont have zone alarm on my computer! It was an up date from microsoft. It eats my cpu like 85% WTF? After no probelm for ages, my system was hanging when I started Outlook Express due to vsmon.exe process taking 99%. I disabled email scanning module of my recently installed AVG upgrade and problem went immediately.. ZoneAlarm process... Keksäramän ZoneAlarm pro - TrueVector version sharon . o my system takes more time to start due to this file suman Essential but causes major cpu drainage combined with Windows leak gehört zu zone arlarm, bei hoher cpu last -- zone arlarm neustarten Greg In my system it uses about 5.7MB memory, and not any significant amount of cpu Snow Looks like spyware: takes http and https connections to internet, no matter are options disabled or not.. Tahvo I do have zone alarm, but sometimes it uses the cpu (once it showed 200ko, and when you only have 256ko: ouch!) badoooo it's the Zone Allarm engine... use really a lot of ram and cpu... i guess i'll never find decent free firewall... Darkman It's either a zonealarm "good" file, or a "Win32.Rbot.GE" worm (bad file). Go to this (zonealarm) link for more definitive information:  link for more info spacedoig Zonealarm security suite - can take up lots of cpu time when performing antivirus scan. I'd be worried if I didn't have a zonelabs product! h0me5k1n If you have zone alarm, open up the control center, click the antivirus tab, then click antivirus options and set the time for sometime when it won't be annoying. If you don't have zonealarm, destroy it. When doing windows update..VsMon caused error in USER.EXE Perf.%age down. Have zonealarm,norton,spybot,and sbcyahooantispy..is this too much?Disabled Zone and NOrton while scan/defragged..still only 65% performance. jaysgram Yes it made my computer work as hell too. Wen't into ZoneAlarm, don't really expected to find anything but... ZoneAlarm was checking for Viruses!!! You can't really see when the program searches for viruses. That is the reason for that the program sometimes uses a lot of cpu. Badfellah While this element of ZoneAlarm is crucial to your internet security, it indeed does consume much cpu 'bandwidth' and can noticably slow down your computer. From what I understand, this program stores temporary data it has glanced over in its own cache. After much internet browsing with this process running it can buildup much stored memory. This is probobly what accounts for a majority of the 'slowing down' factor that many people have witnessed. To avoid this memory buildup, one can simply restart ZoneAlarm after few hours of internet usage, thus clearing out and resetting its memory buildup Michael Y this file has a memory leak - if used on a server (including eMule kad network)  link for more info tanji Anti Spyware tool Slows your PC and u cant disable it cause its "protected" as its important. Maza ZA file, tends to appear during update or while you are running a virus scan. is a background process and it chews up memory but is not malicious (if legitimate) Dancyboy it only takes a lot of cpu when it is doing a virus scan...zone alarm doesnt tell you its doing it unless you look but its fine to have going cuz its a virus scanner after all! nizzy1115 takes up lots of CPU time Arpit ZoneAlarm Personal FireWall which monitors internet traffic and generates alerts abhi part of zonealarm  link for more info Hemant It is a part of Zone lab firewall and it is not dangerous if u have zone lab firewall .If it try to connect the internet then scan the file may be it is a virus  link for more info ajamit007 Whan my system was runnig about 24h vsmon took whole memory and only restart of my pc helped!!! It is always the same! It is hopeless!!! silmarilh It's a Zonealarm or "TrueVector Internet Monitor", the worst thing it does is take up quite a bit of memory Slows my computer down to a halt. Huge memory hog. I have ZA - but the virus scan is disabled - so that is not the issue. jooj For five years I have had a memory problems could not understand why. I now have 1gig of ram in a P4 2.4cpu and I was still running low could not even play music while working on 20-60mb files in Photoshop my son was and he has a slower Pc at that. I run a clean Pc house to. Well today I found a file called vsmon.exe in windows task manager taking up 222.270k and my CPU was going nuts this time I did not re boot I put the file name in google and came to this site. I just re set zoon alarm and my CPU went back to normal. Carl.......... Part of ZoneAlarm. Bad thing: it consumes huge amounts of cpu, making me shut down the firewall entirely... Arjen part of zonealarm. read 110MB IO according to task manager (slowing everything to a crawl) on boot and then disappeared. ZoneAlarm firewall file - very irritating and memory-consumable... I've got my computer on for a couple of days because I'm downloading stuff from eMule (not the illegal stuff of course ;) ) and now the vsmon.exe is using approximately 300MB of my RAM and up to 75% of my CPU... Mishuggah - Poand shuts down when you right click on the tray icon & select shutdown .. does consume a lot of RAM .. consumption increases every minute for as long as ZA is running .. probably a memory leak genious_2k1 seems to be doing a scheduled virus scan David Martin Vector System Monitor, its useless to stop emailchecking / antivirus - option cause vsmon.exe is essential 4 zonealarm!  link for more info Özi Sahini Vector System Monitor  link for more info Özi zonealarm POS when u have multiple internet connection (in or out) it will suck up processing power, don't matter if u have 1 extremely large and fast transfering file open, it only matters when u got somesort of connection open Gehört zur Personal Firewall "Zonealarm" + wird von dieser benötigt Hagman Got all my ram after 5 days of working non-stop... pc was very slow at that time. Restart ZA and everything was ok. Scr34m3r Zone Alarm file, I dont get this eat's up CPU/ SYSTEM RESOURCE, this must be running a very old spec as i use zone alarm over a number of pc's that are nothing special,yet receive no slowdown. Bizzy If it is not Zone Alarm, it is an incidious virus that controls your browsing; prevents downloading virus and adkiller updates.  link for more info thebeerdrinker TrueVector Service of EZ firewall or ZoneAlarm. The Zone Labs vsmon.exe process will never request network access.  link for more info WORM_RBOT It asks for permission to connect to the internet when I'm running agnitum outpost firewall. I also have Zonealarm installed but not running at the moment. Zonealarm says it never will ask for accsess and that it is a fake/worm . Be careful  link for more info drhardlove Was asked to turn off True Vector to install a upgrade for Zone Alarm pro 5 rob hanes some times it goes mad and eats up all da memory available dang3rous Schon 2 mal musste ich meinen PC Neustarten da nichts mehr lief bzw. sehr langsam, und den Prozess konnte ich auch nicht beenden. Danielle The file is not dangerous. The sudden bursts of CPU usage is the schedule virusscan running. It doesn't give the user any hint as to what it's unless asked specifically :( . If you don't like it try disableing scheduled virusscans. Lithyum It is a ZoneAlarm file. After 2 weeks of having it running without restart it started to use all my cpu. I shut it down and up and everithing goes fine again jicidre I restarted ZoneAlarm and a light went on in my navel. zardoz From the ZoneAlarm application. its ok, i mean, it doesnt bother me, but it uses a lot of RAM and CPU! :( max_00 ZoneAlarm's lookup table is small, and the code that parses through the lookup table is inefficient and has a small memory leak. Shut down ZoneAlarm Pro for 15 seconds and relaunch it once VSMON.exe is taking up more than half your memory so you can continue to operate. DRCray has memory leak in my Win2K systems. Keith gehört zu ZoneAlarm, schluckt bei mir grad aber 388.000 K Jarod This is a real shit this firewall ZoneAlarm... The best solution is to change with an other one Denis Runs when Zone Alarm performs a schedule scan, as a result it takes up CPU resources. To eliminate the "problem" simply set up the scheduled scan to run when you don't use the PC - i.e. the middle of the night. If you simply turn it off the PC will never get scanned!!! Jeff It needs too many resources! anyway I found it's NOT related with ZA security threats. FabZ Disabling the automatic update function in zone alarm stopped the memory leakage in my machine Leo seems to be on my machine with since i installed sp2 drains on cpu and hdd and memory. restarting ZAP will bring it under control If you know more about vsmon.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. Your opinion:  --- don't know ---  1 (not dangerous)  2  3 (neutral)  4  5 (dangerous) What do you know about this file: Link for more details: Your Name:

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