Jesone Posted August 18, 2007 Report Share Posted August 18, 2007 I've been using both Zone Alarm and uTorrent for quite sometime and recently I having problems. When I'm away from my computer (normally overnight) a message pops up saying there is a vsmon error with Zone Alarm and it locks up my computer. I have been talking with Zone Alarm support and they seemed baffled so I thought I would try here. Any suggestions or has someone else had this problem and found a resulution ? Thank you for any assistance. Jesone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 19, 2007 Report Share Posted August 19, 2007 Zone Alarm is horribly broken. It's a known bug with it, and doesn't affect just µTorrent. You must uninstall it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted August 19, 2007 Report Share Posted August 19, 2007 Try to disable the Zone Alarm firewall temporarily overnight and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 19, 2007 Report Share Posted August 19, 2007 You can't simply disable the firewall. You must uninstall it, as it will stay hooked even when disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Hi, same problem here. Zone alarm and utorrent dont like each other.Updated to latest version of each and the issue remainsMy analysis.Since I have no other issues with zone alrarm, I feel its a utorrent issue.Mabey.... some hacker has found a way to crash za thru utorrent, Though I hope not.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canis39 Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Same problem here. Since I spent $50 on Zone Alarm, and uTorrent was free...I'm going to try another Bit Torrent client and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbbert Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 I've been using zone alarm for a few years now, and it does have a habit of changing its own behavior for no reason. The first time I used it, ran fine for a few months, then suddenly decided to block all traffic. Uninstalled, reinstalled, ran for about 6 months, then same thing.Tried again, ran for a couple years, then around last christmas, its access log stopped working, and it started having a memory leak. After about a month everything suddenly went back to normal.Until I had a hard drive crash. After reinstalling everything to a new drive, Zone Alarm will not co-operate with any torrent client. Ended up removing it last night, and everything works at last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Trust me, it's Zone Alarm. It's a firewall that's -known- to be problematic. Azureus has a wiki page with ZA problems too.It's a terrible piece of shit. Get something better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canis39 Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Well, it may be Zone Alarm...I've read that it does have some problems...but for me, switching from uTorrent to Azureus did the trick. Azureus ran for about 18 hours straight with no hint of a problem from Zone Alarm. So as much as I love uTorrent, I guess I am switching to Azureus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 µTorrent is simply too badass for Zone Alarm, at least with anything other than rather conservative settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Why do you want to stick with a bad firewall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbbert Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 It was recommended to me to use Sygate Personal Firewall, which I have now done.Utorrent has no trouble with it at all.The good thing with this firewall, is if it has a question (do you want to allow xyz to access the internet), it shows you the text of the packet, and you can see straight away if you want to allow it or not. With Zone Alarm it's guesswork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Sygate should work fine. Outpost too. I've heard good results with Comodo Firewall as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Yep, Comodo seems to work for many people. I would recommend it to people if it weren't for my dislike of its interface and (from what I've seen/read) bloaty feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesone Posted October 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 I just wanted to update this forum with what I did. I ended up Uninstalling Zone Alarm (Didn't want to) and I purchased PC Ciliian. Consumer Reports had rated it number 1. I like PC Cillian but it uses up way too much memory and Processor resources. Errrrgggg ... PC Cillian help suggested I uninstall and reinstall yadda yadda yadda .... I have done that and it seems to work well for a while and then I have to uninstall again and it works for a while. I'll post again with another update a little later... Thanks for all of the posts and suggestions. It's GOOD to communicate this stuff. Thanks ! Later today I found on another forum a possible solution to the PC Cillin resource hogging. I had used Spybot Search and Destroy a while back so I tried this and it did improve my system a great deal.lowly Joined: Jan 03, 2007Posts: 1 (Msg. 16) Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject: Trend Micro instructions for those thathave used Spybot --------------------------------------------------------------------------------For those who have or have used in the past SpybotSearch and Destroy, have they tried the instructionsposted on the Trend Micro site? Problem: After installing PC-cillin Internet Security 2007, mycomputer started to run slowly. It also takes a longtime to open different programs. When I check theProcesses tab of the Windows Task Manager, I seePcScnSrv.exe with a very high CPU usage. What should Ido? Solution: You may experience this issue if you have previouslyinstalled the Spybot Search and Destroy program onyour computer. Spybot may have made some changes to your computerthat conflicts with the spyware monitor of PC-cillinInternet Security. It also increased the size of thespyware exception list considerably, causing yourcomputer to slow down whenever PC-cillin InternetSecurity is active. To get your computer back to its normal speed, do thefollowing: Important: We recommend that you print out thisdocument before proceeding as you will be asked torestart your computer during the procedure. 1.Open the Spybot Search and Destroy program byclicking Start > Programs or All Programs > Spybot –Search & Destroy > Spybot – Search & Destroy. Note: If you have already uninstalled Spybot from yourcomputer, you need to install it again beforeproceeding. 2.Click Immunize on the left menu. 3.Click Undo. A message appears saying "All badproducts are now allowed again". 4.Close the Spybot window and any other open programs.5.Double-click My Computer on your Desktop. 6.Double-click Local Disk. 7.Go to the C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\InternetSecurity 2007 folder. 8.Delete the usrwl.dat file. 9.Restart your computer. If your computer still runs slowly, contact TrendMicro Consumer Support. Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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