Zombie Program?

[Minarwan]

Wow Mel, this is quick :)

Thanks for the response.

I got this Zombie when I visited/logged in to one discussion forum 
running phpBB.

But when I quit Firefox, then I started it again and visited other 
websites, the Zombie process didn't come up. For a reason I don't know, 
that particular forum made my computer running a Zombie process.

Anyway, I found out the way how to kill them from this website:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/killing-zombie-process.html

I will give it a go tomorrow.

Cheers
Min

Melissa Draper wrote:
> Zombies are not good things. They are usually the product of poor
> coding. Whilst afaik they're not going to bring your computer down or
> cause damage, they do suck resources etc. They're like the legendary
> monsters too -- hard to kill ;)
> 
> Firefox from my experience is prone to zombies. My current installation
> often gets them, and I've heard of instances of dozens. As far as I can
> tell, they are probably bad javascript or flash in webpages such as ads,
> but I may be mistaken with this.
>