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to: Geo
from: Thees Peereboom
date: 2005-09-13 09:57:20
subject: Re: LSASS.EXE eats my performance

From: "Thees Peereboom" 

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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