Compatability?

[Phaedra Dragon]

I seem to have run into a slight problem with the latest release for
Firefox, vis-a-vis Zone Alarm. It seems that the Zone alarm Firewall
program contains a file, (vsmon.exe), which you can't shut down or
keep from running, behind the scenes, every time you start your
machine. What this file does, I think, is monitor something, but
what....I have no clue.
What I did find, though, was that following the latest download and
install for Firefox, that I was losing images from sites I surfed to,
as long as vsmon.exe was running. I also lost all images from emails
I would get, forcing me to start using MeSsIE, instead of Firefox,
when ever I checked my email; just so I could read and see images.
I also play a MMORPG, called "Perfect World", and following the
released update for Firefox, this vsmon.exe file began causing me
connection problems between my system and the game servers; which
caused me no end of bad luck - (dying several times just to complete
what should have been an easy quest; getting stuck in the terrain,
beyond the game GMs ability to "pull me out"; and a host of annoying
little problems.
So I began looking at ways to keep vsmon.exe from running, and quickly
figured out that, since I couldn't shut it down, I had to uninstall
Zone Alarm; which proved that the vsmon.exe file was also responsible
for preventing some of AVG's programs from working.
Now that Zone Alarm has been uninstalled, I find my machine is quicker
to open folders, start games, and get me online; which points to the
vsmon.exe file, (which is included as part of the .exe files residing
in Zone Alarm), as being the culprit.
Maybe others have this problem, maybe they don't, but I would like to
throw this out to the Mozilla/Firefox community, and the developers of
Firefox, in the hopes that some one else might enjoy similar benefits
from what I did.

[Abhinav Lele]

Did you try spoofing your User-Agent string in firefox to IE and then making the dumb Zone Alarm software filter useless?
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Abhinav

-_[No constructors were harmed in the writing of this post. Any resemblance to objects living or dead is purely coincidental]_-