Thousands of files in "Protected" Folder

[Michael Geyer]

Hi there,

I do have a Windows XP Professional installation. Some days after a fresh
installation, there were more than one thousand files in "Application data
\Microsoft\Protect\". The only thing I know is that it has something to do
with the encryption stuff.

The problem: Those huge amount of files slowed down the logon process to
one minute and more - lsass.exe tried to access all of those files. I
deleted the files and everything was fine. This has happened several times
- every time more than one thousand files were in that folder.

At the last logon today I noticed again lots of files in that folder.
However, now I am using file encryption on the system - and deleting those
files seems not to be a good idea now.
Does anyone have a good idea what to do?

Thanks,

Michael

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Do you happen to also have Norton AntiVirus, CleanSweep or SystemWorks
installed? This is part the the Norton software.

 

[Michael Geyer]

Hi!

Do you happen to also have Norton AntiVirus, CleanSweep or SystemWorks
installed? This is part the the Norton software.

I do have McAfee 8.0 with Patch 10...

Cheers,

Michael

 

[Michael Geyer]

.... something I would like to add:

I checked another PC and noticed that there are also lots of files in that
directory; however, this PC does not have any problems regarding the speed
of the login process - goes as fast as ever.

What could be the problem with my other system?

Thanks & best wishes,

Michael

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem - did you ever resolve this issue

 

[Richard Urban]

What you have posted here means absolutely nothing as it was posted "out of
thread". You also did not copy/paste the original question here for others
to refer to!

Do you really expect any viable assistance?

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!