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lord255@hotmail.com - 27 Mar 2008 14:23 GMT

My computer has slowed down to a turtles pace. When I go to task manager, I
noticed that lsass.exe is consuming a lot of resources. What is the file?
Should it be consuming so many resources?

Thanks

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Rey Santos - 27 Mar 2008 15:19 GMT

LSASS is the Local Security Authentication Server. It verifies the validity
of user logons to your PC/Server (in technical jargon : it generates the
process that is responsible for authenticating users for the Winlogon
service).

It does not consume much resources. Mine now is: CPU=00, Mem Usage=1,072K

C:\Windows\System32\LSASS.exe. If the path is anything else then you may
have a virus.

See this link for virus related lsass.exe:
http://www.castlecops.com/StartupList.html

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> My computer has slowed down to a turtles pace. When I go to task manager, I
> noticed that lsass.exe is consuming a lot of resources. What is the file?
> Should it be consuming so many resources?
>
> Thanks

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Qinws - 28 Mar 2008 03:44 GMT

If your PC have two lsass.exe process, then one of them surely is a virus.

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> My computer has slowed down to a turtles pace. When I go to task manager,
> I
> noticed that lsass.exe is consuming a lot of resources. What is the file?
> Should it be consuming so many resources?
>
> Thanks

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