I found this on the Tek-Tips forum.
I know we had a thread going on this but I can’t find it. This is concerning excessive Zone Alarm CPU usage/crashes :
[color=blue]"I too was having this issue and it was driving me nuts because not only was it going up to 99% but causing BSOD on Win2K Advance Server that I do alot of DB work on.
Here is the answer from Zone Alarms that seems to have resolved the issue for me.
Issue Summary: vsmon.exe using 100% cpu
Issue Details
The resources used by any program is directly proportional to the
amount of processing it is doing (in this case, more Internet
traffic, such as running a web server, means more resources used).
Depending on system configuration, and the applications you are
running at the time, you may also see Internet speeds slow a little
bit with ZoneAlarm running.
Users will see more resource usage during the Program Learning
phase, right after installation. This should go down after a few
days to a week, when you set the Program setting to High, taking ZAP
out of the learning mode. Note that when the ZA icon appears at the
bottom of your screen, that is only the User Interface - the actual
firewall service starts much sooner.
If resource usage remains high, there are several possible solutions:
- Upgrade to the latest version. Be sure to use the