LSASS.EXE Error

[Adam]

This morning my computer seemed to have a MAJOR problem.

Every time it booted up, I was hit with an error message
that stated there had been an unexpected termination of
the lsass.exe -- it seemed to be triggered every time my
Norton Anti-Virus started to run, but that could just be
coincidence. Then my computer would restart -- and have
the same error, and restart, etc.

I was able to start up in Safe Mode no problem. After
running Norton and Spybot in Safe Mode, I was able to
ascertain there were no viruses or trojans on my
computer. Then I picked a Restore Point of several days
ago, restarted, and the machine was back up and running.

I just updated all my Windows Service packs and anti-
virus def.'s, but now I'm terrified this'll happen again.

I looked up the knowledge d'base here, and the only
relevant post I could find suggested it might have
something to do Bearshare P2P software and winsockets and
reg editting and that's when I get REALLY confusedand
nervous.

I do use a P2P ap, but it's Ares, latest build.

Does anybody here know what lsass.exe does, why it would
crash my whole system, and what I can do to make sure it
doesn't do so in the future? Should I get rid of Ares?
I've had no probs with it before. Are there particular
programs that cause this problem?

Thanks in advance.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Please go to one or more of the below online scanners and perform a scan of your platform
then report back your results.

Trend:
http://housecall.antivirus.com
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

McAfee:
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

Symantec:
http://security.symantec.com/

Dave




| This morning my computer seemed to have a MAJOR problem.
|
| Every time it booted up, I was hit with an error message
| that stated there had been an unexpected termination of
| the lsass.exe -- it seemed to be triggered every time my
| Norton Anti-Virus started to run, but that could just be
| coincidence. Then my computer would restart -- and have
| the same error, and restart, etc.
|
| I was able to start up in Safe Mode no problem. After
| running Norton and Spybot in Safe Mode, I was able to
| ascertain there were no viruses or trojans on my
| computer. Then I picked a Restore Point of several days
| ago, restarted, and the machine was back up and running.
|
| I just updated all my Windows Service packs and anti-
| virus def.'s, but now I'm terrified this'll happen again.
|
| I looked up the knowledge d'base here, and the only
| relevant post I could find suggested it might have
| something to do Bearshare P2P software and winsockets and
| reg editting and that's when I get REALLY confusedand
| nervous.
|
| I do use a P2P ap, but it's Ares, latest build.
|
| Does anybody here know what lsass.exe does, why it would
| crash my whole system, and what I can do to make sure it
| doesn't do so in the future? Should I get rid of Ares?
| I've had no probs with it before. Are there particular
| programs that cause this problem?
|
| Thanks in advance.

 

[Adam]

How's this for annoying:

I updated my Norton Anti-Virus, ran a scan, totally clean.

I went to the Pandora site, just to test it out, did an
online scan -- Four infected items found.

And then, as it was generating the report, some conflict
between the Java and IE caused a crash, losing my report,
so I have no idea what the infected items were. Another
scan by Pandora didn't show them so they'd obv. been
fixed. YAY WINDOWS! YAY JAVA! YAY NORTON!

Still, googled lsass.exe crashes, and it seems to have
more to do with downloading issues and registry stuff,
not nec. a virus. But then, I did have those four
infected items.

Is Norton really that sloppy? I pay for their service,
and a free online scan finds FOUR viruses they missed?
Doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

-----Original Message-----
Please go to one or more of the below online scanners

and perform a scan of your platform