From: "Thees Peereboom" 

Geo,

Here you might be onto something - will check this next time it happens.
Actually have had some other diskrelated problems, too, for which I
initially blamed the slowness of the subsystem.

- Thees Peereboom

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:18:39 +0200, Geo  wrote:

> Is there a lot of disk activity? (thinking it could be a failing hard
> drive)
>
> Geo.
>
> "Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
> news:op.sw061upg2hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...
>> Geo,
>>
>> Thanks, but I have Kerio running on this machine and there is no unusual
>> activity. Will download tcpview anyway and see if it notices something
>> else.
>>
>> - Thees Peereboom
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:40:29 +0200, Geo  wrote:
>>
>> > Quick way to check if it's a trojan
>> > http://www.sysinternals.com/NetworkingUtilities.html
>> > download tcpview and see what's talking to the web. Usually a trojan
> will
>> > try to spread and have tons of open connections which you can easily
> spot
>> > with tcpview.
>> >
>> > You'll find some other tools on that site which may be helpful to
>> track
>> > down
>> > a process.
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> > "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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