Hi grok, I have a win 2000 machine that has started with this problem this
week. The page-fault delta is always 300 or so and the total page faults for
this process was at 16 million+ overnight. I think what I have is a variant
of 'vundu' virus, but none of the antivirus/antispyware (norton, adware,
counterspy) have detected anything wrong with lsass.exe
Whatever it is on my machine randomly pops up IE windows. That is the only
sympton that I have seen, other than the constant disk io from lsass.exe.
I have even disabled the Windows Security service that is supposed to be
using lsass.exe, but the process is still started at reboot. I have tried
deleting the file from winnt/system32, only to have it reappear almost
immediately.