Xp Pro slows down - help!

[Ken Bessler]

My system is a 1400 mhz athlon with 512 megs of ram.
I have 2 harddrives, c=120 gig, d=60 gig, both NTFS.
Free space c=25 gig, d=37 gig. I'm running NAV 2003,
Spy Bot and Zone Alarm. All software has the most
recent updates. OS is XP Pro Sp1a.

Here's the problem: After running for a few hours or
overnight, the system slows to 386 speeds and the hard
drive light is continually lit

Rebooting solves the problem for a while.

When this condition is active, I've tried shutting down
all programs on the task bar - no help.. I looked in
windows task manager and the only thing that stands
out is vsmon.exe, which is using almost all my ram. After
rebooting, it's only using 16 megs....

I did a google on vsmon and found out that it is a critical
part of Zone Alarm.

Help! Do I need to axe ZA and go with ICF?

Ken

 

[C. Skaggs]

uninstall, then reinstall zone alarm, it would seem the copy you're running
has developed a memory leak

 

[Richard Harris]

Sounds like the app has a memory leak in it, and from reading this
http://forums.zonelabs.com/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=61
30 so do a few other people!