Trying to connect to vsmon

by SoftGuitar Nov 19, 2004 12:01AM PST

I have an :
AMD K-6 2/300
160mb SDRAM
120 Gb Seagate Hard drive
NVidia MX/MX 400 video card
SB 512 Wave audio card
Running Windows XP Professional (NON Corporate now)

I just reloaded my entire operating system to make it LEGAL. I now get a message caught by my Sygate 5.6 firewall that tells me that :

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\vsmon is trying to connect to s.idolz-hq.net 64.27.17.74 using re3mote port 6667 IRCU-IRCU"

Sygate also catches the following:

"NT Kernal and System (file name ntoskrnl.exe) has been blocked from accessing the network"

Should I allow the vsmon to connect? Is it a legitmate file or will it open a port and allow the transmission of worms, viruses etc. ?

and what about the NT Kernal and System? Is that vital? It seems Sygate automatically closes off that by itself.

My computer runs fine without either of these two.

Thanks,
Jesse Gomez Jr.

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vsmon is the True Vector component of the ZoneAlarm firewall. If you're using Sygate 5.6 firewall now does this mean you were using ZoneAlarm previously?

Look at this site, under "V";
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

If you do not now have ZoneAlarm then it looks like it wasn't uninstalled properly. Also, if your Sygate allows you to do a Whois on the domain site you mentioned, 64.27.17.74 you could see where vsmon is trying to contact.

ntoskrnl.exe is a fundamental part of the Windows Operating System. Have a look at the discussion about it here;

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11788657~mode=flat

it may help you to make a decision whether to allow it to access the internet or not.

Mark

Mark,

I want to thank you for your comments. You kept me from making a very horrific mistake. I was about to go to my registry and extricate the Ntoskrnl.exe but I can see it is a valid entry and probably harmless.

As to the second answer and question posed about the Vsmon, you were right. It was a left over from Zone Alarm and I realized that after I un-installed and then re-installed the Windows XP this time without any Zone Alarm. The Sygate picked it up of course...the first time...but without Zone Alarm installed with the new XP install I was clear of the Vsmon. The Ntoskrnl.exe still remains of course...it is valid.

Now I have another nuance and that is that I finally was able to download my Norton's Internet Security but the Internet Firewall for it does not work. The Norton's Antivirus section that comes coupled with it works fine. Could this be due to the way I downloaded it? I had to have my Sygate and Spyware Guard running during the download or else I would have contracted more worms, etc.

Thanks,
Jesse Jr

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