ntlsap.exe??

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My son was complaining about extremely slow performance
of our Dell Dimension 2.4 Ghz desktop. I ran McAfee,
spybot, adaware, and Pest Patrol, and nothing found. I
looked at task manager, and started shutting down
processes, because the CPU was running 100% constantly.
The one that did it was ntlsap.exe, which was located in
the Windows/System32 folder. I could not find any
internet references to this file, and it was not founf on
2 other machines also running XP home. I did not delete
it, but went into config and unchecked run at startup.
When I looked just a little while ago, it was not
running, but was again checked in startup! I went to the
folder and clicked the file to run it, and checking task
manager saw cpu was clocking 100% again, so terminated
the process. Any thoughts on what this is and what it
does? No reference on MS site or in knowledgebase that I
saw. Thanks.
 
My son was complaining about extremely slow performance
of our Dell Dimension 2.4 Ghz desktop. I ran McAfee,
spybot, adaware, and Pest Patrol, and nothing found. I
looked at task manager, and started shutting down
processes, because the CPU was running 100% constantly.
The one that did it was ntlsap.exe, which was located in
the Windows/System32 folder. I could not find any
internet references to this file, and it was not founf on
2 other machines also running XP home. I did not delete
it, but went into config and unchecked run at startup.
When I looked just a little while ago, it was not
running, but was again checked in startup! I went to the
folder and clicked the file to run it, and checking task
manager saw cpu was clocking 100% again, so terminated
the process. Any thoughts on what this is and what it
does? No reference on MS site or in knowledgebase that I
saw. Thanks.
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I could not find anything on that process either, id say try moving it out of that directory, restart, check event viewer to see if anything failed to start. How about using a compiler and checking out the code of the exe? that might help you figure out that it is.
 
My son was complaining about extremely slow performance
of our Dell Dimension 2.4 Ghz desktop. I ran McAfee,
spybot, adaware, and Pest Patrol, and nothing found. I
looked at task manager, and started shutting down
processes, because the CPU was running 100% constantly.
The one that did it was ntlsap.exe, which was located in
the Windows/System32 folder. I could not find any
internet references to this file, and it was not founf on
2 other machines also running XP home. I did not delete
it, but went into config and unchecked run at startup.
When I looked just a little while ago, it was not
running, but was again checked in startup! I went to the
folder and clicked the file to run it, and checking task
manager saw cpu was clocking 100% again, so terminated
the process. Any thoughts on what this is and what it
does? No reference on MS site or in knowledgebase that I
saw. Thanks.
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It's more than likely either malware or some program that may have
installed itself without permission. I did a search for the command
and could not find anything. I even went to the startup apps page and
it wasn't listed there either.

In addition to removing the checkmark in msconfig.exe, use the
registry editor to find all instances of the program. Remove the
registry entries but back them up first - just in case. Then rename
the executable. If anything is amiss or it's needed, you can always
put everything back the way it was before.
 
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