I too have this problem, and I wish I didn't because having processes that I
have to restart the computer to get rid of are annoying.

If it does turn out to be ZA, I'd remove it in a heartbeat, this is annoying.

"Sephyx" wrote:

> I'm having some issues with the task manager. The biggest culprit will be a
> game like Halo or other programs if they encounter an error and lock up my
> machine. I can ctrl-alt-delete to bring up the task manager, and then I can
> close the process and the program goes away, the process however does
> not(with no message saying it failed to close it), and keeps eating memory
> until I restart my computer. I've tried KillProcess with no luck and I'm
> beginning to wonder if its a problem with vista, or either Zone Alarm or
> Nod32.
>
> I've tried ending process, and the tree, I've tried just logging off, but
> its still there, the only method to clear it out of memory is to reboot.
> Even turning off ZoneAlarm and Nod32 doesn't help task manager do its job.