Windows xp firewall or zonealarm?

[Joor]

Which firewall do U use?
Zonealarm use to much cpu power imo( open task manager, its between 30-40 %)
Built in firewall dont have enough setting..

 

[CliffyG]

Zone Alarm Pro here, built in one is useless. Never had a problem with resources though?

 

[Joor]

was vsmon which use around 40%

 

[Ctuchik]

i'm using Sygate FW, its pretty nice

 

[old.Whoodoo]

Issue Summary: vsmon.exe using 100% cpu

Issue Details
The resources used by any program is directly proportional
to the amount of processing it is doing (in this case, more
Internet traffic, such as running a web server, means more
resources used). Depending on system configuration, and the
applications you are running at the time, you may also see
Internet speeds slow a little bit with ZoneAlarm running.

Users will see more resource usage during the Program
Learning phase, right after installation. This should go
down after a few days to a week, when you set the Program
setting to High, taking ZAP out of the learning mode. Note
that when the ZA icon appears at the bottom of your screen,
that is only the User Interface - the actual firewall
service starts much sooner.

If resource usage remains high, there are several possible solutions:

1) Upgrade to the latest version. Be sure to use the
Clean Install option.
2) Set the number of alerts shown to 50. While this number
can be set as high as 999, please remember that these are
stored in memory as well, and will take more resources.

From Zone labs

Im using ZA 5.1 now, runs a lot smoother than previous versions.

 

[Escape]

Zonealarm5 had some trouble with resource usage... has this been fixed in 5.1?

 

[old.Whoodoo]

Zonealarm5 had some trouble with resource usage... has this been fixed in 5.1?

Usage to me is great, still about the same as V4. However, V5 is a full suite and includes anti-virus, firewall, email blockage, popup blocker, content blocker and other bits n bobs, so a lot can depend on how much you have turned on.