| All comments about vsmon.exe: |
 Alex | ZoneAlarm Personal FireWall which monitors internet traffic and generates alerts |
 steve | Its just a mandatory Zone Alarm file. |
| Funonline | Zone Alarm True Vektor Monitor See also: Link |
| Beth | Associated with ZoneAlarm personal firewall. |
| | part of zonealarm. install the latest version, the older version have security bug |
| Kev | This is only a True Vector Monitor from ZoneAlarm. It take alot of memory |
| | A zone alarm file, takes quite some memory and CPU usage sometimes |
 jonas | piece of crap software that drains your CPU |
 gabberino84 | I haven't not installed Zone Alarm in my pc, and I have vsmon.exe in the task manager! |
| | gehört zu zoneAlarm, bei hohen cpu auslastung,: zonealarm neustarten ... |
 | sometimes it explode and starts using CPU slowing all |
| pascal W. | gehört zum programm zonealarm |
 kolja | zone alarm shit, that eats up almost the whole cpu-time: restart zone alarm to get your system back under control! |
| ABdullah | Duno what happens... all of a sudden drains your CPU usage |
| | works ok but sometimes it stops responding |
| | Läuft ganz ruhig im Hintergrund ) |
| moorey | found this file when i was infected with worm. dont have zonealarm installed. never did. See also: Link |
| Dave | Gehört zu ZoneAlarm (neigt dazu manchmal viel RAM/CPU zu fressen) |
| Whoa! | In my case it is genrating a lot of CPU usage. Checked and it seems to be doing full virus scan. |
| sosuke | Worm_RBot.BO See also: Link |
| | Essential part of zone alarm- ignore 'dangerous' rating |
| Joakim | 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. |
| | i have never installed zone alarm, but this program showed up as infected by a virus when i ran trendmicro housecall.... |
| Martin | 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). |
| photec | 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. |
| Selecta | Hintergrundwächterkontrollprogramm von ZA PRO, ungefährlich. |
| Ironeagle | Verlangsamt den Internet - Zugriff |
| Willy | Der Prozess bläht sich mit der Zeit auf und kostet dann viel performence |
| BroodwarPlayer | Habs mit MSIti32.exe(Virus) bekommen. Ohne ZoneAlarm stürtzt Computer ab. |
| mjm | ich habe das teil, ohne zone-alarm intalliert zu haben. könnte bösartig sein! |
| Scythe | 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 |
| Nebrezian | Worm_Rbot (Check your risk with SecurityTaskManager) |
| Kayne | Drains CPU usage...restart to fix |
| Bill | Seems to have a large memory leak, if left on over 24 hours it has used over 700 MB of memory! |
| Michael Hickman | It misbehaves shutdown zonealarm and it keeps running can block a vnc session unknowingly |
| Philip | 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 |
| FXB | Very Flakey- CPU HOG nothing but headache |
| Lord V | a valid part of ZoneAlarm, however possibility tat it could be ome infected/some viruses using its name. just a thought. |
| Charlie | It does consume cpu memory. Shut down ZA and then restart it and everything will work fine |
| Maurício Rotta | It uses a lot of cpu. Strange... maybe it´s a bug or something like that. To fix it, you have to restart the application. |
| mellamoandy | 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 |
| c | It watches for internet port access to your pc and blocks malicious scanning attempts. See also: Link |
| Brad | On email download, spun my CPU up to 100% and seemed in an endless loop. Had to restart machine |
| Graham | Zone alarm - after using PC for about 1 hr grinds to a halt and have to reset |
| sekhui | part of zonealarm. essential and not dangerous, unless you don't have ZA installed (virus alert!) |
| CmdrTaco | 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. See also: Link |
| Mark | used as part of zone alarm but be careful which zonealarm options you choose since it can go wild. |
| Urban | There is a worm that poses as vsmon.exe follow the link to learn more. See also: Link |
| Rico Suarve | It slows my PC down as it uses alot of my CPU |
| Phill | tied up CPU and I/O to freeze my system - seemed to go "bezerk" - took almost all my memory. |
| JB | ZoneAlarm crap. It uses up my RAM and CPU. |
| Chusha Kobayashi | Critical component of ZoneAlarm, firewall application/ See also: Link |
| krade | This memory hog is also a part of eTrust EZ Armor by Computer Associates (licensed from Zone Alarm). See also: Link |
| Ralf | 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. |
| trmbr | I noticed that VSMON is connecting to my ISP - not sure why therefore have blocked it with no affect, as yet |
| | zonealarm vector :) |
| Papparotti | ZA, after a while on the net, the process eats up the memory. |
| Yarosh | 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... |
| ahp | 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 See also: Link |
| Nicked | 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 |
| | hat manchmal ne enorme speicherauslastung... (bei mir gerade 25.000 K tendenz steigend) das bremst das sys ungemein |
| Guile | 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. |
| Crono | Version 5.01.xxxx frisst unaufhaltsam ram bei allen filesharing programmen. mittlerweile auch edonkey. |
| don | zone alarm file - severely degrades System performance occasionally by sucking up Cpu time. |
| bigbass | It hogs about 50% of my cpu time, but only when running a Virus Scan, then 0% |
| hans | slows your pc down something cronic. takes up to 80% CPU usage at times |
| JJN | Blocked websites (server not found)... ie and firefox |
| | it's just the virus scan that hogs the hdd... |
| Mr.G-C | If no Zone alarm installed - WORM,VIRUS!! See also: Link |
| darce | vsmon.exe using 320Mb after 2 days - evil |
| Eric Van Hoof | 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. See also: Link |
| SpeGase* | this file is danguerous with Emule Kad network See also: Link |
| Derchalia | TrueVector Service, an essential part of Zone Alarm firewall. See also: Link |
| JB | pain in the butt - restart ZA to clear |
| Robo | 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 |
| beowulf | Part of zone alarm can stop internet responding. |
| Professor Bloggins | It's the Zone Alarm antivirus -- that's why it slows your PC down -- be patient and let it finish |
| Foxbox | ZoneAlarm file which caused enormous disk activity and thus slowed my PC. After stop/start of ZA everything is oke |
| chips:) | its slowing cpu big time not sure what i got but when i watch dvds and play internet it lages up |
| - N!K - | Not sure if it's high cpu consuming issue is related to eMule |
| Steven | 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... |
| ItalyMafiaSpaghetti | I have Zone Alarm, vsmon.exe is not dangerous but it uses a lot of ram and cpu!! |
| | vsmon in Zone version 4.5 very CPU consumable also! |
| PDP | 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. |
| Spinning Cow | Eats cpu time especially when downloading using emule. Emule has to be closed down by task manager. |
| Abraham Genoves | 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 |
| oli | It has the highest I/O read of all processes on my laptop, making it swap as hell regularly. |
| urns88 | IT lags my computer |
| Conker | 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. |
| Paul M. - Poland | This file is recently replacing by not-yet-known virus [trojan]. It has the same name as ZoneAlarm vsmon |
| | I have the file in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Zonelabs |
| Jason | A helpful Zone Alarm file, but can slow the comp sometimes. |
| A Friend | 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. |
| | it uses 400mb memory after 12 hours!!! |
| Don morris | Its a normal/required file for Zone Alarm |
| Hülya | 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 |
| Taufique | Damn true vector, slows down pc like shit. Really irritating. |
| Bearinc | 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 |
| z | I do not know what it is for but vsmon.exe just eat up all my memory (Win XP). Otherwise ZA is cool |
| Darrow | 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. |
| John L | My computer hangs up since I installed the latest Zone Labs I will now dump it-Vsmon(not responding) continuasly |
| Rich N | seems to caise memory leakage +++ |
| Tim | 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. |
| mike | Good progy......been using it for a bit now.......ill give up the cpu to protect my computer |
| faded | 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... |
| Astrogirl | CPU Hog |
| tsfinder@yahoo.com | 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. |
| Peter | zonealarm |
| serig | ZoneAlarm file. It takes more CPU and memory every hour. Until I have to restart ZoneAlarm. I'm using Zonealarm 3.0 |
| solution | switching off the automatic update function in ZoneAlarm seems to stop the cpu and memory problems on my machine |
| Aethereal | 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. |
| passing | zonealarm pro 3.7 installed this file. Required for safe surfing. |
| der Rohrdesigner | Bestandteil von Zone Alarm. Hat bei mir 90% des CPU gebraucht. Nach Neustart von Firewall behoben! |
| dillthedog | 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. See also: Link |
| Zonealarm Fan | VSMON is the Virus Monitor. Uses Increased RAM when running Virus Scan. |
| neil diamond | stands for Very Small Mamal Online Numbskull |
| Stubbz_nzl | 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 |
| Viagra | 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 |
| Dahvid | part of zone alarm. i have had no problem. only uses 5mb when idle on my machine |
| trent | 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.. |
| Ruhla | nur ne zonealarm anwendung die nix kaputt macht... |
| Morri | 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. |
| Ender | Eats up CPU and is blocking all activities.Perhaps is a virus but is not detected by antivirus software |
| Khan | 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 |
| Gary | 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. See also: Link |
| Ke | It gets annoying sometimes, it drains 98%+ of your CPU just 3 days before your trail day is over. |
| | 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.. |
| Keksäramän | ZoneAlarm process... |
| sharon . o | ZoneAlarm pro - TrueVector version |
| suman | my system takes more time to start due to this file |
| | Essential but causes major cpu drainage combined with Windows leak |
| Greg | gehört zu zone arlarm, bei hoher cpu last -- zone arlarm neustarten |
| Snow | In my system it uses about 5.7MB memory, and not any significant amount of cpu |
| Tahvo | Looks like spyware: takes http and https connections to internet, no matter are options disabled or not.. |
| badoooo | I do have zone alarm, but sometimes it uses the cpu (once it showed 200ko, and when you only have 256ko: ouch!) |
| Darkman | it's the Zone Allarm engine... use really a lot of ram and cpu... i guess i'll never find decent free firewall... |
| spacedoig | It's either a zonealarm "good" file, or a "Win32.Rbot.GE" worm (bad file). Go to this (zonealarm) link for more definitive information: See also: Link |
| h0me5k1n | 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! |
| | 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. |
| jaysgram | 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. |
| Badfellah | 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. |
| Michael Y | 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 |
| tanji | this file has a memory leak - if used on a server (including eMule kad network) See also: Link |
| | Anti Spyware tool |
| Maza | Slows your PC and u cant disable it cause its "protected" as its important. |
| Dancyboy | 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) |
| nizzy1115 | 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! |
| Arpit | takes up lots of CPU time |
| abhi | ZoneAlarm Personal FireWall which monitors internet traffic and generates alerts |
| Hemant | part of zonealarm See also: Link |
| ajamit007 | 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 See also: Link |
| silmarilh | 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!!! |
| | It's a Zonealarm or "TrueVector Internet Monitor", the worst thing it does is take up quite a bit of memory |
| jooj | 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. |
| Carl.......... | 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. |
| Arjen | Part of ZoneAlarm. Bad thing: it consumes huge amounts of cpu, making me shut down the firewall entirely... |
| | part of zonealarm. read 110MB IO according to task manager (slowing everything to a crawl) on boot and then disappeared. |
| Mishuggah - Poand | 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... |
| genious_2k1 | 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 |
| David Martin | seems to be doing a scheduled virus scan |
| Özi Sahini | Vector System Monitor, its useless to stop emailchecking / antivirus - option cause vsmon.exe is essential 4 zonealarm! See also: Link |
| Özi | Vector System Monitor See also: Link |
| | 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 |
| Hagman | Gehört zur Personal Firewall "Zonealarm" + wird von dieser benötigt |
| Scr34m3r | Got all my ram after 5 days of working non-stop... pc was very slow at that time. Restart ZA and everything was ok. |
| Bizzy | 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. |
| thebeerdrinker | If it is not Zone Alarm, it is an incidious virus that controls your browsing; prevents downloading virus and adkiller updates. See also: Link |
| WORM_RBOT | TrueVector Service of EZ firewall or ZoneAlarm. The Zone Labs vsmon.exe process will never request network access. See also: Link |
| drhardlove | 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 See also: Link |
| rob hanes | Was asked to turn off True Vector to install a upgrade for Zone Alarm pro 5 |
| dang3rous | some times it goes mad and eats up all da memory available |
| Danielle | Schon 2 mal musste ich meinen PC Neustarten da nichts mehr lief bzw. sehr langsam, und den Prozess konnte ich auch nicht beenden. |
| Lithyum | 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. |
| jicidre | 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 |
| zardoz | I restarted ZoneAlarm and a light went on in my navel. |
| max_00 | From the ZoneAlarm application. its ok, i mean, it doesnt bother me, but it uses a lot of RAM and CPU! :( |
| DRCray | 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. |
| Keith | has memory leak in my Win2K systems. |
| Jarod | gehört zu ZoneAlarm, schluckt bei mir grad aber 388.000 K |
| Denis | This is a real shit this firewall ZoneAlarm... The best solution is to change with an other one |
| Jeff | 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!!! |
| FabZ | It needs too many resources! anyway I found it's NOT related with ZA security threats. |
| Leo | Disabling the automatic update function in zone alarm stopped the memory leakage in my machine |
| | 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 |
| Roshan | This shit uses up a whole lot of your PC memory, and CPU I shut it down ( ended the process) and my computer was like it went from zero to 120 in 5 sec. |
| TTT | Only program that slows my pc way down & hides my lil cpu usage icon. |
| WindPower | Essential part of Zone Alarm, but it always takes lots of CPU, without your knowledge. I have 2 vsmon processes running at the same time, so I guess one of them is a virus... but which one ? |
| Bird Hunter | Uses almost all my memory and locks my pc up big time. Sometimes Zone Alarm is excellent and other times it really sucks |
| sharenames | the name vsmon.exe from the zonealarm firewall is used by hackers to attack the pc and the functions,seen it with a portcontroller |
| HDGames | vsmon.exe slow my computer always when i restart (close and reopen zone alarm to get your system back) |
| Dutch | Slowed my 3 machines to a CRAWL...I shut down ZA and then re-started...Fixed it just fine...Thanx to all that posted possible fixes...MUCH appreciated! |
| JL | Not a zone alarm process, it's a virus. |
| blo0dskAr | a part of zonealarm AND E-trust. after i deleted them my etrust crashed ;) |
| insertCoin | I have experienced that remaining my PC on for more than a day it may use memory up to more than 700MB! So it slowed down my PC to intolerable limits. If you're using Emule, just shutdown and restart your PC and Emule. |
| Alfador | If ZoneAlarm is taking up massive amounts of processor power, you are probably handling a lot of traffic. Use the ZoneAlarm menu to Disable all Internet traffic (or engage the Lock) in order to improve performance. Of course, this means all online activities will be inaccessible until you re-enable it, but that's the tradeoff... |
| finn | true vector monitoring for both EZ Armor and Zone Alarm (same engine. eZ uses a slightly older version). can cause issues if the database files for the program are corrupt. these files are stored in c:\windows\internet logs. if it is causing problem u can delete this folder completely. u can also copy the executable from the repair folder in the software directory or uninstall it. uninstall by c:\windows\system32\zonelabs\vsmon.exe -uninstall. If you unintall the program is still runs however, just as an app and not a service. This can free up system resources but becomes less secure. |
| frabo | Part of ZoneAlarm Pro. In my PC CPU-usage is negligable, memory usage is considerable, in my case 355 MB. |
| Seshmut | Harmless, but gets caught in some sort of loop, and eventually chews through resources |
| Chris | Makes the CPU go crazy because the antivirus is scanning in the background! Just check when you have scan scheduled and change the time/date. |
| beowulf | associated with Zone Alarm internet monitoring. Found vsmon.exe gobbling up CPU % ran spyware detect, removed spy's and CPU usage was normal. Many spy's were running at one time. |
| Mel S. | Zone Alarm Pro File. |
| MotoRajko | zone alarm file takes lot of memor and cpu if you configure Z.A. wrong. |
| i_Saw_It_Come_And_Leave | Yes i know that file too.. it's very very annoying but you can do something about it. Just uninstall zonealarm, and activate Windows Firewall! It is much better firewall, as it is integrated in windows much more then zonealarm. You do loose the control of giving programs acces or not, but it helps. |
| Diamond Jim | At times it uses up nearly all the cpu. Can't shut it down with task manager. Can't uninstall it. Have to use System Restore to control it. |
| sharenames | Vsmon.exe ist in der lage den pc einmalig zum Absturz zu bringen,die cpu schwingt sich langsam hoch bis zum zusammenbruch.die attacke funktioniert in verbindung mit der zonealarm firewall.einziger schaden ist der einmalige absturz daher eher harmlos |
| Vega | ZoneAlarm file, however can also be a virus if not located in the correct location: %windows%\system\Zone Labs\vsmon.exe. Just run a virus scan if you don't own ZoneAlarm or if something seems amiss. Quote mellamoandy: "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" ZoneAlamr Pro itself does not have the virus scanner, yet still has the same problem. Please try to know more about the software before making degrading comments. See also: Link |
| Brian | It has screwed the operationof my pc for two weeks now, or so I believe. I presumed it was an issue with a windows update. I am so annoyed, there must be beter technology from this company. My pc is attacked every hour or so according to ZA inform me, so I need protection, but this stuff WOW!!!! |
| alima | All i know is, that everytime i startup my XP Pro Sp2 .. I get that True Vector Internet Monitor pop-up ... and I use Symantec Corp 8.0,Ad-Watch,Window Washer 5 and ZA Pro 5.5 .... And U guys gotta stop complaining it does not hog memory it takes up MAX - 10 for both ZCLIENT.EXE AND VSMON.EXE |
| Don | vsmon.exe is a component of Zone Alarm firewall. It does not hog your system resources (unless it is also the Virus scanning engine). There is a lot of confusion here, there is also a worm that places a file named "vsmon.exe" within your System32 folder with the code within. |
| Nicolas | Mandatory file belonging to ZA firewall. True that it hogs RAM and CPU, sometimes the computer is soo slow. However it's the greatest firewall ever...so tough choice. I made my mind and decided to suffer a bit...a lot sometimes to be safe. |
| Ogai | It has a specific location and there are viruses that plant a file of this name in the main WINNT directory. So if you look at task manager everything seems ok when in reality it isn't. See also: Link |
| JW | Vsmon appears to be the most active process, and latest version seems to have memory leak. I have to reboot every 24-48 hours because my PC performance slows down terribly. |
| Haseeb | vsmon.exe memory leak, i have ZA installed, but its not doing a full virus scan anymore.... still takes up all available physical memory |
| BiG LoKe | Forma parte del zone alarm, pero unicamente se me "hincha" de tamaño despues de mucho tiempo conectado a internet o en la mula |
| Someone | This file is a safe file, however in particular versions of Zone Alarm there is a bad memory leak problem. |
| Craig | Standard zone alarm file - did slow my processor for couple of minutes which is why I looked it up |
| mamo | seems to only bug out, when the pc is affected by some worm, or virus. normally works perfectly. |
| CAMMX | Zonealarm thing.......takes up too much cpu and too much memory - 400 megs when comp left idle |
| farkZA | a piece of crap that slowly eats up ur cpu and ram bandwidth until you have to reset. |
| Krille | It comes with Zone Alarm. Get a better firewall, ZA is just crap. |
| Travis | Zone Alarm. 7.1 MB of mem. never used more than 1% when idel |
| depro | I have zonealarm pro so i suppose it comes with it |
| 4daPeace | Part of ZoneAlarm Security Suite |
| Peter | It blows up the CPU |
| | Part of EZArmour |
| Mike H. | Ive been running Zone Alarm since it came out... If you configure everything right, and know what your doing, ZoneAlarm is the best program avaliable. Being that you have Great program control, it DOES havce a god anti virus, keep it updated, and it doesnt take much ram to run at all it takes about 3% of my cpu to leave on and mabye 50 - 100 megs of ram, im running, An Intel 3.4Ghz at .09 Micron OC'ed to 4.0 45 degress Celcius average and 2 gigs of PC3200 Ram, might not be such a good program for someone with 256 megs, but i have another pc with 256 megs 2.5Ghz runs GREAT. |
| KB | vsmon.exe is part of zone alarm, however does not have anything to do with virus scanning. Zone alarm is a firewall not an antivirus. It consumes massive amounts of CPU time because zone alarm has become bloated and internally unorganized. Only traffic into and out of the computer should be checked by zone alarm, now adays it seems like it monitors internal traffic as well which causes it to be a CPU hog. This is not the responsibility of firewall and it should not be doing it. |
| | when zonealarm is doing it's scheduled virus and spyware scan, vsmon uses a lot of memory and processor resources. If this behavior troubles you, click 'Advanced' in the anti-virus/spyware section of zonealarm, and reschedule or turn off scheduled scans. This is not reccommended, however, as you should scan your computer for spyware and virii every week or two. Disable it at your own risk, but I reccomend just letting it do it's bit. it only takes 30 mins. |
| Mitch | i have problems with zonealarm and my trillian, AIM, IE, firefox. Sometimes, even with program control off, it refuses them internet access. I close zonealarm and its fine, but i think it is this process that is flashing my internet every couple minutes. It is very annoying while chatting and while online gaming. |
| de tijger | quite annoying if you let pc your do his work for hours. After about 12 hours download vsmon.exe (if ZA is your firewall) will eat all your RAM and also your CPU. 2nd annoying thing is, that it blocks Internetexplorer (server not found) I will look for a better firewall... |
| Tim | Utter piece of crap. Slows down the pc like you wouldnt believe. Takes several minutes to log into MSN, and to cap it all off, control freak of a father password protected it so i cant reconfigure it so its more efficent |
| slapnuts | ordinary zone alarm file, this program slows computer down worse than a virus. 200 meg memory for a f@#(ing firewall ? a pentium 200 with 16 meg ram can efficiently firewall, wtf is up with using 200 meg memory ??????? |
| manx_bkk | I m using Zone Alarm pro 6 and it still has the memory leak problem. It takes up lot of memory when left running for some hours, i have to restart it again to free up the memory. |
| John | Some say it's just a CPU hog, but they don't know where to shut it down in ZA. If you DON'T have ZoneAlarm, kill it very, very, VERY quickly b/c it's malware. See also: Link |
| | It uses up your memory. If you have Zone Alarm, you should leave it beccause it actually works... Well I have Zone Alarm Pro. |
| Keith | whenever vsmon starts chewing up resources I simply shutdown Zone Alarm and then start it up agains. works for me everytime |
| XrayEcho | This is a Zone Alarm file and works with Anti-Virus scan. Turned off ZA anti-virus scan and cpu usage dropped to zero. |
| SpaceDolphin | Installs on your computer without permission. impossible to shutdown. stops all internet activity. |
| Rose | Better firewall than Windows. When offline, doesn't give any problem if you shut it down. |
| Wuff | geht hoch während virus/spyware scan - wenn man die sercuity suite hat See also: Link |
| Steve | Hogs more an more memory until you can barely use your machine. |
| Kadh2000 | It only uses up space when scanning, so leave it alone See also: Link |
| Nyks | Zonealarm; Restart Zonealarm, when high CPU-Usage |
| schnuffel | wit shutting down zone alarm you close vsmon.exe |
| SamyDeluxe | Hintergrundprozess der nur Performance schluckt, aber was genau das Teil macht kann ich nicht sagen, kann man das gefahrlos deaktivieren |
| Richard | Part of Zone Alarm |
| Lindy | This file can easily become a runaway process that brings your system down |
| | ZoneAlarm crap |
| Adam | zonealarms internet monitor., theres a bug in the program makes it eat all your memory. it seems like zonelabs dont care though.... |
| Psych0r | saugt gewaltig ram und cpu |
| big d | part of zonelabs security suite, memory usage continiously builds up when using ur pc, starts at approx 26megs |
| catfoot | It is used by ZoneAlarm. On my pc it did use up all my memory, check your task manager, both the memory usage in the processes tab and the page file usage kept going up and up the longer the pc was running with ZA version 6. 350mb mem use in process and 2GIG page file use. I uninstalled version six, went back to 5.5 problems went away. |
| LaJack | eats up a lot of CPU time at startup uses lots of Mem and slows every thing down |
| random surfer | part of zonealarm, has a horrendous memeory leak. restart ZAP and itll go back to "normal" if i had paid for this version of ZAP id be choked ; ) |
| | Part of Zone Alarm (with Virus). Not inherent dangerous, except to productivity when it goes CPU crazy, and doesn't relenquish it without shutting ZA down/restarting it. |
| Ma®k | Zone Alarm process. If it's using excessive CPU then it's probably running a virus/spyware scan. |
| | zone alarm !!! harmlos!! prozess stuft sich zurück wenn pc benutzt wird dauert bloß |
| Michail | VSMON is a internet monitoring and sistem scaning utilit |
| AMB | 'vsmon.exe' does use ALOT of resources when scanning for viruses, but thats all. If it bugs you, turn of the schedule, and run it manually before you go for lunch or leave to run over night or something. |
| Willem | often takit takes quite a lot of cpu power, even without actual internet access.. to monitor |
| Jim | vsmon controls virus scans and spyware scans for ZoneAlarm. It is NOT dangerous. It does take a LOT of cpu time by nature of what it is trying to accomplish. Set auto scans to a time when you're not using machine and you won't have trouble. |
| finn | Part of ZoneAlarm and EZ Armor. The more work is has to do, the more processor usage is required. If it is hogging resources it is most likely busy blocking traffic. Check for spyware and viruses, and turn the ad blocking off to see what happens. |
| Steeeeve-O | Zone Arlam is the best Firewall ever!! It protects you from many Hackers and Spy ware! See also: Link |
| | its a part of zonealarm (free version) zonealarm pro and zonealarm security suite |
| Grant | How is taking up RAM and CPU usage a secuirty threat? I believe were rating the executables secuirty threat, not its impact on system performance. |
| pctech777 | It can be found in Windows\system32\zonelabs you can't delete it because it is running, you can't stop it either. Run Msconfig look for vsmon.exe uncheck the box and reboot, now go delete that piece of junk off you system, I never installed any ZSone products. |
| poopychewp | In Process Explorer (great program, free) I seen vsmon.exe using 1.1GB (after I update to I updated to 6.0.667.000 it was chewing up memory), then I went in ZA preferences - turned off auto updates and Antivirus monitoring. Now it's sitting on 21.8MB and hasn't budged. |
| selva | it eats the memory of the cpu and makes ur system run like a tortoise |
| T-man | Zone Alarm. Within 3 hours of surfing, it eats up 600Mb+ of RAM out of 1G. Eventually eat it all up and locks system. |
| ted | Use ZoneAlarm Pro 6.1 - Does 1500 i/o per second on a spyware scan. It is usually sched for night but when it runs in the day the system is really slowed down. I just cancel the scan and system responsivness is returned. |
| ahref | if you have xone alarm installed then leave it alone my asmon.exe doesnt have a memory leak please check for updates as i have just updated my version. if you do not have zone alaarm then it is a virus |
| Comp Guy | Its a Zone Alarm prosses, if you don't have Zone Alarm its prolly a bug, do a scan. If you have Zone Alarm and its taking up mem, then Zone Alarm is doing a scan...usually scaning something you are downloading |
| nobody | Zone Alarm Firewall |
| waltyourz | It attaches to other programs and runs without permission i can't stand this if i get no help gonna reboot everything.. this shit sux. |
| Gisela | Remained active after deinstalling Zone Alarm; killed network communication; erase ZoneLabs files in system directory in protected mode |
| RamRod | zonealarm...just restart..it messes up once in a while..no big deal |
| | Vsmon.exe gehört zu ZA.Steigt die Speicherauslastung unaufhörlich einfach die Antivirusüberwachung von ZA ausschalten,dann ist es vorbei mit dem Spuk. |
| Anon | It's a Zonealarm file, but rbot uses it as a front. So if it starts acting up, you might have rbot. Ignore the noise about it being completely harmless if you are having problems. |
| | the file is fine, youre lettting it do a virus scan without knowing it tell it to scan at a time when youre not at your computer - it works |
| Mattheew G | Hogged my CPU (50% with other programs running) and kept it nice and overheated |
| wwarez | zonealarm file that cannot be shut down manually, sucks up huge amounts of CPU, why zonealarm got 3/5 stars |
| Adam | essential part of zonealarm - but does use a lot of CPU if left running a while. waiting for fix from zonelabs! |
| Mike | This is quite simply the anti-virus & anti-spyware scan... thats all! if you don't want it to systematically scan at a given time/day, change the settings in Zone Alarm. You can then scan when you are not using the computer as it does take up some valuable CPU usage. So there you go, this is no different to setting up any anti-virus or anti-spyware tool, set it up correctly the first time and you have no problems. All the best! |
| Lester | Offered as part of Time Warner cable service, and normally runs ok. Currently the vsmon.exe process on my WinXP SP2 dual proc amd machine has grown to 103,024k mem usage, 49% cpu utilized. Ouch. Perhaps there is an update to correct this bug. |
| jD*SharpS | Zonealarm, not dangerous but very annoying. Blocks internet even if you shut down zonealarm. in start - ping 10.0.0.2 (If on a router) and you get 'error code 65', you know zonealarm is blocking your internet. It's done this to me with out reason, the only way to fix it is to uninstall zonealarm and delete all traces of it. |
| HanZie. | Zone-Alarm file. Hogs my CPU even before scheduled tasks. and i have 6.1x or sumtin... They should really take a look at it, its causing my downloads to be slow and not letting me check my gmail with firefox. never ad this problem until Zone-Alarm. but besides that Z.A. (suite) is perfect... |
| | i have had za now for quite some time and am just now receiving problems with vsmon.exe. It just started to take up all of my cu |
| Sian | Sometimes it takes 98% of my CPU and I can't shut it down... :( |
| | Re-install Zonealarm |
| I love my name | really good at keeping you protected! |
| Andrei_SG | It's a zone alarm process, it monitors Internet traffic, but if you don't have a fast computer ,it will cause a lot of trouble slowing your PC to the minimum !!! |
| Erling | The file belongs to my e-Trust Firewall- it monitors in and outgoing traffic |
| pan | vsmon.exe sticks in the background, eating up 60% resources alone, slow down the internet by ~80%, stick there even the ZoneAlarm is shut down, and when I tried to re-open ZoneAlarm, it doesn't open, so I stick with vsmon.exe running in the background and can't find no way to kill it even a re-boot. |
| hysyd | hi cpu usage - unable to stop or delete this file even under admin. tools/services |
| Gibbo1314 | It only occurs with zone alarm runs its anti-virus software, just pause scan then resume when your finish what you are doing |
| Usefull Archive | ZA is great but this destoyed my pc. The drainage started after about 2 years of ZA. Tech Support says to unistall, and re-insall the latest v os ZA. |
| Wiz | If you never installed ZoneAlarm, it's a virus and uses a lot of CPU and Memory. |
| dirk | check map c:/windows/system32.If u find vsmon.exe there its a wormif he's in map c/windows/system32/zonealarm/vsmon.exe its just zonealarm which is running |
| Xarxsis | related to Zone alarm, cannot be removed, boots before windows does. major problem - ability to lock internet without reason |
| dud | up to 99% ttl cpu usage,kills speed and responsein all areas.There has got to be a better way! |
| dstructaoflamerz | vsmon = vector service monitor: it checks your connections/ports and logs them... if this file resides in your ZA dir, it's the genuine one... there might be a infected file floating around, but with a updated virusscanner there should be no problem... yes, it takes up memory with the time running... RAM not CPU... restarting zonealarm will solve the problem... disabling logging will minimize it... you can not kill the task under winxp.. only if extra task tools are installed... but this would render your firewall useless and leave you unprotected..! |
| skvw | Mann muss nur den vierenscanner von Zonelabs deaktivieren dann funktioniert alles wieder bestens! |
| | Anything that crashes your system is dangerous, maybe time to look for a new free firewall |
| mekushor | It is a ZoneAlarm file, it drains cpu if u run a scan... so do not be alarm ....lean to set up your ZoneAlarm configuration and then complian.IS SAFE |
| Kender | Can be either Zonealarm firewall or virus RBOT. See also: Link |
| Kevin | ZoneAlarm monitor, slowly chews up memory with P2P programs, mine was 300Mb+ over a few days! |
| Carrl | I have Zone Alarm Installed on a File Server. What brought my attention to it was the excessive HD activity when the HD should have powered down for the night. VSMON.exe was the culprit. Agree that shut down and restart of Zone Alarm works but how can you do this remotely for a file server? |
| RG | Zonealarm - usually quiet, sometimes spins memory and I/O out of control requiring a reboot, and thus hardly to be considered stable given the seriousness of the product and all that it hooks into |
| Gregster | Eats up all CPU, constant 100%, crap software!! |
| SkyBlueBoy | It is also used by CA security suite, which obviously uses Zonealarm for firewall. It was fine with zonealarm but slows computer with CA |
| John Doe | Shutdown zone alarm when installing files - freezes computer when trying to install america's army - slow down all zip operations. |
| Opinioer | I don't really care what this process is but it doesn't take any cpu of my computer |
| Hycron | Disable antivirus/spyware protection and product updates and it seems to reduce memory usage of vsmon.exe alot. Hogs the cpu and ram when it runs an antivirus scan in the background and doesnt let you know its doing that. |
| Stiff_monkey | If you got zone alarm it's harmless if you haven't you've got a virus. I have absolutely no problems with memory or speed of my pc. |
| Kisara | ZoneAlarm. I haven't had trouble with it hogging CPU usage (0% from it o_O), and it weighs in at 7mb in the RAM department. I'd notice if it was causing troubles (2.0GHz Intel Celeron CPU;255mb RAM :\) |
| northernguy | I know that when truevector has a problem of some kind it shuts down zone alarm as indicated by the icon in task bar. This means on the last occasion that my computer was running totally unprotected for as much as twenty hours before I returned to my computer. If I was sure that it was as unprotected as indicated I would rate this zonealarm as very dangerous for arbitrarily withdrawing protection. |
| Dougo | I have ZoneAlarm Pro and have NEVER had any issues or problems with vsmon.exe. After making a backup copy of a music cd ( "Warner" label, 2004 ) my cd burner would not 'see' ANY cd . When I did a shut-down & reboot, got a 'fatal exception' error for vsmon.exe. After reboot, I searched and found "vsmon.exe.zip" created 30 min ago !! The time when I completed the backup copy of cd. Deleted file, system restore (Roxio GoBack) - everything back to normal. |
| | Part of ZoneAlarm, so technically not dangerous, but at all CPU power, then when scan finished, didn't clear memory. Is now sitting there taking up 30MB of precious RAM... |
| Lard | This file has apparently kept all thing except IE from connecting on my computer, and now it's being a bitch trying to get rid of it... |
| zollo | vsmon is an active component of zone alarm firewall and security suite |
| Marc | Zone alarm traffic watcher but uses high CPU. |
| Benjamin | Zone Alarm file. Probably ok but uses a whole bunch of memory... I'm using a system with Windows 2k installed. It brings the memory all the way up. It keeps expanding the virtual memory untill it can't anymore, then when it can't it just reboots. No warning, no input from me, just reboots. I think it's because the OS doesn't have enough memory to run. |
| Zip37 | This is a legimate service, so I don't find anything on this service, the only thing that you'll don't like is that computers with less than 256 mb. of RAM will slowdown (of course this is only a sugerency) I recommend to use at least 256 mb. of RAM and preferibly a 800 mhz or more CPU, there are some viruses that use the same name of the service ( remember that if you don't have ZA installed there is nothing to worry), if you have it and don't have ZA is a virus, and if you see two instances you should shutdown both processes and run your AV |
| daniel | it helps block internet backdoor trojans, viruses, ect |
| Greg | ZoneLabs Quote: "To prevent ZoneAlarm from crashing your system, you can try to reboot your system every 24 hours." |
| gayman | zone alarm file - never uses much but once it used heaps |
| hute | Zone Alarm. It is slowing the hell out of my laptop.. |
| MysTikal | Listen, there is a virus that names itself to vsmon.exe - if you dont have ZoneAlarm installed, your infected with a virus, if you do have it installed, your fine. Reset zone alarm to fix the CPU Usage. |
| tokyojin | Essential file for ZoneAlarm. CPU usage can peak at times, but this should resolve itself after a few minutes. Nothing to worry about. |
| Oompah Loompah | Part of ZoneAlarm, best firewall there is.... |
| Niko78 | Its Zone alarm firewall engine don't stop! It consume a lot of cpu process and ram, but you are safe and controling your PC . If you don't have zone alarms it a virus! |
| pdsa | It's a Zonealarm file that resides in "ZoneLabs" directory. Uses 4,408K on this Win2000Pro machine with 512Megs of ram. Works fine for this one but have seen it cause problems with others. |
| D | Its the Virus / Adware Scanner running in the background, its set to scan automatically. Just go into Zonealarm and cancel the active scanning, your system should return to normal after that. |
| Makuta | Sometimes my comp's a little slow start'in up so i check processes on start up and notice that vsmon.exe has the processor bog down 85% |
| jacknsonnson | possibly of rootkit features, call home on usuall occations |
| Krish | I have a major problem with this vsmon.exe file, I am unable to get rid of Zone Alarm this file gets locked as soon as you boot the PC..How do I get rid of this file? |
| BandR | Runs fine on Win2K. Runs like treacle on XP SP2 |
| Triton | If you have Zone Alarm Anti-virus or Spyware set for auto-sweeps - this will happen and run in the back ground - which tends to slow a system with a large amount of files I have 7 - 500 gb hdd's most are nearly full - when the auto anti-virus runs it starts thursday midnight and runs for 3 days straight - I am soon upgrading to new software that puts distance between my firewall (Symantecs Sygate) and my antivirus (AVG) - regardless vsmon.exe hogging is usually something auto set in Zone Alarm - take a moment to bring up the page and check it out yourself . |
| RAM007 | Zone alarm is proberly the best internet security you can really get, just the process call vsmon is its only downfall |
| Joe | Been using free version for many years on many systems. No problem if configured correctly, as suggested by the comments of others. |
| lintz | so thats what vsmon is for. i wonder if ill get infiltrated by hackers if i turn it off. no wonder all my internet games run slowly especially guildwars |
| | Die Datei gehört zu Zone Alarm Pro. Auf neustarten oder neustarten der Software hat keine Wirkung bei mir gezeigt. Hab herausgefunden, das sich es nicht mit LCDStudio verträgt. Hab LCDStudio beendet und siehe da... Vielleicht hilfreich für alle G15 Besitzer mit ZAP und LCDStudio |
| Ted | Zone Alarm security, does use a fair amount of cpu but protects you so not dangerous! keep running all the time you are connected to some form of network. |
| SkaVille | nutzt bei mir 5% der cpu auslastung alle 5 sekunden (hab tower neben mir stehen, stört ein wenig und verunsichert). weiters ist mir noch nichts negatives aufgefallen, allein pdf files mit grafiken hacken ein wenig, kann aber auch an was anderem liegen. |
| Chuck McVey | vsmon appears to be the resident ZA application that monitors the system based upon the rules the user establishes. When it is seen to utilize 'excessive' cycles, it is when it is scanning for viruses and spyware. At those times, it does not prohibit other applications from obtaining cycles and thus does not appear to be locking up the CPU. |
| WHR | Zone Alarm virus-scan & monitor. May seem to run for no apparent reason - but is only doing what other virus scanners also do: scan system on boot. Change settings if not as you prefer. As with other scanners, they all take much CPU time. Once complete it takes v-little CPU time & simply monitors in background. If in doubt clean install the latest ZoneAlarm - it works! Don't complain if you have pirated version!! |
| John Master | True Vector Internet Moniter, Escental Part of ZA Internet Security Pack |
| XGeneration_Gamerz | takes up a chunk of my cpu usage. so dam annoying, but with, its guards against bugs. |
| Skywalker | It is apparently associated with Zone Alarm, when it shuts down his process goes away. my problem was it wouldnt let me install any demos I downloaded from FilePlanet. My solution, shut down ZoneAlarm before beginning installation. |
| clever dude | this file seems to be from ZoneAlarm. All i know is that it always using 20 mb of my memory. It sucks. |
| Zeromatrix | VSMON.EXE kann Anwendungen von CD-Laufwerken aus verhindern. |
| Ken | Firefox's extension -- NoScript showing that a script from 172.0.0.1:1025 is running all the time in any website. By checking the process, is vsmon.exe (I do have ZA installed). Not sure what it do on FF. |
| read this | its part of zone alarm. when it eats up memory its just virus checking. ive got 256 ram and its fine. if u dont want it to eat p ram / cpu then turn of the anti spyware automatic scan and if it blocks ur internet explorer then go into program controls in the ZA window and allow it. you´ve probably got it automatically set to off. you people really should read the tutorial / actually look at zonealarm before you do anything. and just as a sugestion, maybe theres a virus / trojan / worm / spyware .......etc that is using the same name as vsmon.exe to try and trick people into thinking its good. |
| | Essential file for running Zone Alarm Firewall. DO NOT REMOVE! If your computer is running slow, then buy a better one or upgrade it; your computer is junk. |
| NEXUS | VSMON.EXE uses up a lot of CPU time when performing background virus scanning. Simply open ZoneAlarm and turn off the virus scan to regain your CPU time. |
| KingArthur10 | It's a Zone Alarm file that acts up when doing some CD drive accessing. Disabling Zone Alarm until done with whatever activity you're doing will solve the problem. Just remember to restart it afterward. |
| Wooden Wand | This file is part of Zone Alarms firewall, however it is linked to Virus and Spyware Scanning in the Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite. |
| Mallito | It's a process of Zone Alarm Firewall. Not dangerous, but yes have a high request of CPU. |
| kayakjon | vsmon on my own computer sucks up CPU cycles constantly. Same program on my work-PC runs just fine. Obviously CA doesn't really care about the consumer. My employer (with 1/2 million employees) won't accept the same crap software from CA to run on their employees PCs. They insist on better performing firewall. The CA Help Desk is useless. They recommend re-installing the firewall, but this doesn't help. CA is a company that needs to get its act together. If Windows Vista has a good firewall built-in, who will need CA? |
| Matze | Meist Harmlos. Es handelt sich um den "virus software monitoring" ZoneAlarm überprüft ob eine AntiVirussoftware Aktiv ist und Funktioniert. Jedoch kann in dieser Datei auch ein Virus enthalten sein. also Link klicken, antivirus überwachung in den zonealarm einstellungen rausmachen, neustarten und gucken ob die datei sich immer noch aufbläht... dann vorsicht!! See also: Link |
| Hope Mills Affordable Computer Service | It is part of CA Internet Security Suite. It uses a lot of CPU resources and I would recommend NOT using it. There are better Firewall programs available that does not lock up your PC. |
| Check it Out | Great Firewall Software! Donno what to do without it. For those of you whose complaining, wait till your PC gets hacked by some genius hacker, and you'll know that you are going to loose BIG time. |
| ZoneAlarm | A part of all versions of Zonealarm. Some worms, though, have the same proccess name.... this site is merely about security, so do not complain about how much you do not like this software. THIS PROCCESS IS NOT DANGEROUS IF YOU HAVE ZONEALARM INSTALLED! |
| | gehört zu zonalarm .. bläht sich nur auf nach 9h computer an, hat es 3GB daten gelesen |
| The_Law | a Zone Alarm file, takes some memory and high cpu usage sometimes. |
| weedwacker | it is part of ZAP and EZ Armour, i deleted it on one machine and now the firewall i had (ez armour) won't initialise. HOGS resources like no tomorow, but that's checking emails repeditavely, turning off autochecking appears to have no effect |
| Al | Im not sure wheather or not this file is a serious threat. However, it does act like a virus in that vsmon.exe is on ones computer when zone alarm is not installed. Also, the way it randomly activates and deactivates is bohering because trojans and other viruses behave the same way |
| jb | I am using zone alarm suite 6.5, I have checked and removed VS MON from the system folder and registry where it deos not belong. If I transfer a file using Yahoo CPU time goes up to 98 and ram goes to 56MB. It does this even with email, antivirus, antispy and IM scanning shut off. If I stop file transfer it returns to normal. I must conclude that this software is unsuable for this purpose. MSN file transfer is okay, but very slow. VSMON does not try to connect to the internet for me, if it does it is a worm using the VSMON name however I cannot say it is harmless as it doesn;t work for me. |
| Rick | Seems like a lot of people are on a witch hunt. |
| rosebud | Associated with ZoneAlarm personal firewall. |
| Jenny | Ganz einfache Lösung, Abgesicherten Modus starten, Zone Alarm Deinstallieren und Neustarten, fertig und weg ist das Problem!° |
| | All the statements of not configured correctly...there sure isn't any suggestions of the correct settings. Stop compaining about the complainers and give them the correct answers to set it up...!!! |
| ohmu | The program runs well if configured correctly. If you want protection for your computer, it will cost you RAM and CPU, all things have a trade off. I've only had one instance where things went poorly with vsmon.exe, and it required a total reboot of my computer to fix the network lock. If you close vsmon.exe your network traffic will stop until you reboot. |
| bobbo | This is a zonelabe requird file, it uses alot of your cpu |
| | If you have ZA innstalled this process just shows that it is running spyware/antivirus check. Go into ZA Security suite and halt the search. Manually running the 2 searches seems to be less taxing on my cpu then the automatic one. Perhaps ZA tries to run the 2 simultaniusly? |
| bastantey | Shut down zonealarm when vsmone.exe gets greedy, Then restart it, that sorts it out. |
| Xeby | Zone Alram's IMON checking file |
| Alex | its the biggest process ever omg it takes me 50.000 kb wtf cmon |
| VirusLab Heuristics Expert | If you have zonealarm installed then this is the internet monitor component. This is safe. However there are several variants of a worm that call themselves vsmon.exe. Check any suspicious programs out with a trusted virus/malware scanner. Cheers... |
| CatFlanges | ZoneAlarm is a piece of crap that slows down and blocks everything except viruses... |
| Csa | Erscheint erst, nachdem man das aktive ZoneAlarm geschlossen hat und beendet gleichzeitig jegliche Internetaktivität für kurze Zeit ( Reconnect , kann mitunter den kompletten Speicher fressen, bei anderen aber auch harmlos im Hintergrund laufen. |
| bigmac | Ist nur für ZoneAlarm (kann man ja beenden) |
| Ace | I had been using Zone Alarm Pro for about 4 years with no problems then I installed ETrust Internet Security Suite from CA which apparently uses Zone Alarms engine, I have everything disabled except for the Antivirus part of the Software, I have checked my registry for suspicious entries and everything is in order, but when ever I play a certain video game(offline) for about 20 minutes, vsmon.exe kicks in and gobbles up about 90% of the CPU on my machine for no apparent reason, keep in mind that auto-virus scanning is disabled. There is definitely a problem with this exe and should be fixed. |
| Timothy | Is needed for Ca eTrust Internet Security Suite |
| XXDan | Zone Alarm File |
| Darkmor | zone alarm is a very good firewall for the private use. |
| | Just rebooted windows, slow as and Zonealam message box pops up, and i check task manager and see vsmon taking up 330k of memory! DAMM |
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| Martin | Just recently took energy from the cpu |
| Alex | While it works, vsmon occupies 56 megabytes (out of 2 Gb) on my PC. Seems a bit excessive. Memory leaks possible. |
| Lammy | its giving me the shits because i cannot delete it whatsoever. i'm so lucky to have it in my etrust, now that won't even run virus checks or anything! |
| Sircolin | it's using 1.7gb of page file on this machine im fixing seems like a bug to me (software firewall are rubbish) try smoothwall or ipcop both and free and tons better than this blotted rubbish. |
| System Admin | A ZoneAlarm trueVector service. To view it's descrition, open up the command prompt and type in services.msc and double click on TrueVector internet monitor. |
| S G | Make sure it isn't running any background deep scan spyware searches, etc. and the cpu/memory usage problem should go away |
| CanDark | It occurs that this file automatically searches the PC for viruses and Spyware. That causes the memory and CPU usage to raise sky high. See also: Link |
| cls | Pure Zone Alarm True Vektor Monitor... |
| Jon Doe | This file mostly appears in my task manager using up to 50% and over 30 MB when zone alarm conducts a system scan - i.e. actually is looking for viruses! if you need more performance, you can always cause the process using the zone alarm software. |
| Hans Dieter | Part of the Virus Engine for Zone Alarm. Beginning with Zone Alarm's new virus engine, they have serious problems with memory management. It's been out at least since Jan '07, and they've yet to address the problem. Zone Alarm's virus monitoring service is badly broken, and they're not addressing the issue--they're pulling a Microsoft. I called, today, and got a refund for purchasing ZA Security Suite 7. I spent two days attempting proposed fixes to no avail. It was time for a refund. |
| mr_lovalova | zone alarm!! and that is the because i have and not installed but works fine See also: Link |
| Sam | Zone alarm item that eats up CPU on boot up hardly possible to do something else rebooting does not alway's work disabeling zonealarm msconfig to boot or deinstalling then the only option. happens only very rarely |
| oobied00bie | Make sure that you do not have MailSafe enabled in ZoneAlarm. If u also have your antivirus scanning email attachments. They may be conflicting. See also: Link |
| Vinoth | Its an essential component of za just disable the anti virus and anti spyware and your good to go |
| Surabhi | Due to this process CPU utilization goes high n high |
| A satisfied Zone Alarm user! | Well if you don't have zonealarm installed on your computer then it could be a virus or something like that but if you have zonelaram installed then you shouldn't worry about it ;) |
| Nick | It stops Firefox from working when zonealarm is uninstalled and it will not allow me to reinstall zonealarm due to a truevector process already running this means i have to use IE to access the net which i am not happy about :( |
| Trident | It is surely a process of ZoneAlarm. However on my PC it spikes once every 60 seconds. |
| Fudge | Part of ZoneAlarm - essential for the firewall, not needed if you dont have it. Turn the auto scanner off or set it for a time you dont need full CPU yourself as it slows the system to treacle |
| Andy2002 | Die Datei Vsmon.exe ist von Zone Alam und ist die Überprüfung auf Viren und Spyware im Hintergrund! Einfach auf das Icon mit der rechten Maustaste klicken und Prüfung Anzeigen klicken! Jetzt kann man die Prüfung Beenden und schon geht alles wieder Normal! |
| Ray | This should fix for xp home |
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