skywriteing
Technical User
Re: thread924-960579
VSMON.EXE is Zone Alarm running a scan of your system.
vsmon.exe can not be shut down with the task manager nor can the system admin. folders be used to switch the start up properties from auto to manual. (Likely some Trojan figured out how to exploit that)
Click on the Zone Alarm icon and monitor the scan process.
From there you can click "SKIP" scan.
And likely "SKIP" scan again for the mal-ware scan.
This will shut down the annoying scan for a while because it eats up 90% of CPU time.
You can schedule your scan for a time when you don't use your computer. ( Ya, right ) : )
I stopped using Zone Alarm even though I paid for it because of this. Still, other scanners are not as thorough so now I reinstalled it.
- Sky