Zonealrm going wild
Folks, I just wanted to find out if anyone had come across this.
I have found that the machine I use as a network server (windows XP home/zonealarm pro 4.5.538.001/Nortons antivirus) suddenly goes very slow. Investigation shows that VSMON (part of Zonealarm) is suddenly running wild and using about 99% of cpu. Stopping and starting ZA sorts it out until the next time. I can find no real reason for this except the observation that it seems to happen after a period of relatively long user inactivity on the machine (5-6 hrs).
I have dragged all over the ZA site, but although a number of people have reported it, ZA appear to have made no comment themselves. I have found a couple of suggestions - ZA themselves suggest corrupt log files, but I think I can rule that out as I have cleared mine. The other suggestion based on a registry change (which I have not yet tried), but which apparently slows down the startup of ZA - which is another interesting thing in that the current ZA now seems to take an age to initialise the True Vector agent (VSMON).
Does anyone have any thoughts ?