Re: Zone Alarm Pro - Vsmon not responding

From: Rüdiger (ghostghostghost@gmx.de)
Date: 12/21/01 

From: Rüdiger <ghostghostghost@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 03:18:30 +0100

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:56:10 -0600, "Markeaux"
<markeaux@YANKTHISyahoo.com> wrote:

>Same prob here on 98SE for months earler this year, no help from ZA support
>... finally got so disgusted with it I moved to Tiny Personal Firewall about
>5 months ago. Just this week I thought I'd give ZAP another chance but
>right on the first reboot after install "VSMON Not Responding" and hard
>hang.
>
>"Mark Klebanoff" <maxikins@os2bbs.com> wrote in message
>news:7c938150.0112201644.34b990f7@posting.google.com...
>: I sure don't know, but I have the same problem on about every other
>: startup of Win98. I also have Zonealarm (the free version) and only 1
>: hard drive.
>:
>: buck_2u@hotmail.com (buck) wrote in message
>news:<6ac2e9e.0111251655.70aff7e9@posting.google.com>...
>: > This has been a problem on two separate computers. I discovered one
>: > however did not have ths problem until I added a second hard drive.
>: > Upon boot up the system stops responding. Cntrl-Alt-Del reveals the
>: > message "vsmon has stopped responding. I have done a complete clean OS
>: > install on a system with a new hard drive (with a slave hard drive,
>: > btw) and have the same problem. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

This is a known issue with ZA. Your best chance would be uninstalling
ZA,, read this:
http://www.agnitum.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2033
Download the second-last (!) ZA Version (check newsgroups and boards
if this is bugging around) and install it again.
If this wont help you should get another firewall.
If you want a lot of features with an easy use, try Outpost::
http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpostfree.html
If you want a pure, small firewall use Tiny:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tinyfirewall/

Rüdiger

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