From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Try more than McAfee, which I presume you have.

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Glenn M.
"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
news:op.swz57kb02hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...
> Rich,
>
> Thanks, but I already checked - there is some mention of this on the web,
> but McAfee finds nothing. I forgot to mention that the sudden activity of
> lsass.exe is usually in combination with winlogon.exe, which shows the
> same behaviour.
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:10:03 +0200, Rich  wrote:
>
>>    I would check to see if you have a trojan on your machine.  Some of
>> these inject themselves into system processes like lsass.exe to make
>> themselves harder to detect and remove.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>   "Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
>> news:op.swzix1xa2hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...
>>   All,
>>
>>   For some time I see my CPU suddenly using 100% of it's power and when I
>>   check it's lsass.exe, a windows system application, that eats all the
>>   processing power. I can't close it, of course and can't find a clue to
>> the
>>   reasons of this either. Sometimes it just stops after an hour or so
>> and in
>>   other cases it took all day so I finally rebooted which stopped it,
>> too.
>>
>>   I'd apprciate some ideas about the cause or nature of this,
>>
>>   TIA,
>>
>>   - Thees Peereboom
>

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