For those of you searching for answers to the vsmon.exe problem eating all your processor time, I have the solution! Sorry if this has been posted before but I couldn't find any reference to it, and when I tried to make it a follow-up to the original thread and couldn't (see below). Anyway, the answer was posted in a thread on the ZoneLabs website, and refers to a MS KB article about this problem. Follow these instructions: "Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 321434 On a computer that is running Microsoft Windows NT or later, use Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). To do so, click Start, click Run, and then type regedt32. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vsmon NOTE: Vsmon is a service that is installed by ZoneAlarm Pro. In the right pane, double-click DependOnService. In the Edit Multi-String dialog box, you will see a list of items that might include Afd, RpcSs, and Vsdatant. Add W3SVC to the end of this list, and then click OK." From: http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=7409 I am posting this to a new thread because I got the following message when trying to add it to the original thread (which appeared on a Google search): ERROR: Old Message You are trying to post a reply to a message that was posted quite a long time ago, July 30, 2002 at 23:13:04. Odds are that this reply will not be read by someone that can further help you with your problem. Please go to the appropriate forum by clicking here and post your question at that location. You will not be able to post a reply to this message.

And what exactly am I dong to the firewall monitor when I add that key to the registry? Does it not take up system resources because it is looking at the information? Do I really want it to stop looking at that information? Seriously. I'm befuddled as to what this will do.

Normal memory usage for Zone Alarm's vsmon.exe is between 5K and 6K. Example: 5,012K (virtual memory size), 5,732K (regular memory usage). Solarian