lsass.exe

[army20]

Hi, My Lsass.exe is using more than 91% of my processor even if my computer has been turned on 25 minutes before. Any one know why ?

[Radimus]

sounds like blaster... :-)

[RyanVM]

wow, I didn't think people were still getting those worms...

(must resist urge to make Canadian joke....)

[Doggie]

make sure you have a decent virus scanner with up to date defintions, i recommend Norton Antivirus but if you cannot buy anything, use Avg free edition 7( http://www.grisoft.com ), download hijackthis( http://www.spychecker.com/download/download_hijackthis.html ), spybot S+D( http://www.spybot.info ) and adaware SE personal edition( http://www.lavasoft.com ). Run everything and one of those should do the trick

[army20]

Thanks guys ! I never tought it can be a worm. It's my mother's computer and she just play cards on it.

[ChunkDog]

Sircam and Sasser viruses/worms will attack LSASS process. Does the computer restart when attempting to use internet explorer? If so, just run "shutdown -a" to stop the shutdown process and update tour windows, then scan for viruses.

[TiXer]

About "shutdown -a".. Does that command only work with XP? Is there a similar command you can use on win2k? We've had some major sasser/blaster issues on the net at work, so would have been good too know.. We haven't heard of any commands that works on win2k.. (Stupid question, but I'll ask anyway )

[Yzöwl]

Windows 2000 (with the Resource Kit installed) and Windows XP (natively)

[army20]

@ChunkDog: No the computer don't reboot by itself. It is only verrrrry slow after the boot process.

[ChunkDog]

Hmm... It's not sasser then, Might want to try to update Windows XP Fully, installing sp2 if not already installed. Then if the problem still persists, boot into safemode with networking, then go to this website and scan the system for any viruses/trojans.

[stupid]

Might want to try to update Windows XP Fully, installing sp2 if not already installed

if you update to windows sp2 while your system is currently infected it can create issues.

maybe even BSOD issues