From: "Thees Peereboom" 

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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