i had zonelab a while back and dont now,cant get it to stop running i dont know much about computers but im running xp and i cant get any programs online like msn or anything that needs the net other then msn messnger the first and explore how do i stop it from running in processes ? i tryed it in safe mode and nothing found in in systems but i still cant get rid of it whats next
"i had zonelab a while back and dont now,cant get it to stop running" What is "it"?
I suspect you have spyware problems. run adawarese or some other spyware cleaner. this might be a start to your solution.
best of luck Frank :
no i tryed it all , looked it up on here but found nothing but thanks
its called vsmon.exe ..
Run/msconfig and stop it from starting there.
Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.
i tryed that too and restarted but nothing still on lol
You "HAD" Zone Labs "ZoneAlarm" Firewall. IF you uninstalled it and it still runs...then i suggest ReInstalling it properly..and Remove it again.
But why not keep that Firewall? Its better than most freeware Firewalls :)
I had the same problem some while ago. I had uninstalled Zonealarm including deleting the entire Zonealarm directory but it was still working in the background without any controls being accessible. I reinstalled it and again uninstalled it, I searched for vsmon.exe all to no avail. Finally I did a file by file check through Windows\System32 and found a file called vsdatant.sys which had been left behind after the uninstall. To play safe I renamed it and then rebooted. This time no hidden firewall was running in the background. I then search the registry for it and found it under CurrentControlSet\Services. I deleted the registry entry and have no problems since. Hope this helps.
unless its free to install i cant do that i had it installed with the computer it was free but then cost money like 6 months ago so it shut down , but i always tryed to rename things moving things its really protected i cant move or rename anything this ones crasy lol
i could not find "vsdatant.sys" in systems there is a full folder of zonelab but i cant do anyting to it not in safe mode or anything
