lsass.exe

[lord255]

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

 

[Rey Santos]

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

 

[Qinws]

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