I am sure a lot of people have similar question.
What is vsmon.exe?

My computer start to get very slow after I started to download 1.7GB file using DownThemAll (Firefox addon), I was wondering what was happening in the background. So I open up Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) to see what’s going on.

Wow! vsmon.exe is taking approximately 40% of my CPU and Firefox 40% and svchost.exe 20%. I knew 2 processes firefox and svchost but what on earth is vsmon.exe?

I did a few google searches and found that vsmon.exe belong to ZoneAlarm personal firewall, it is used to monitor your internet traffic.

So this process sis quite safe, as soon as my download is finished everything came back to normal. But keep in mind that spyware or virus could be named anything, you need to know exactly where is this process located on your computer and who created it.

You can use Process Explorer tool to identify it. The rest of this article is showing you how to do it.

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