Comments on: how to get rid of lsass.exe http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-get-rid-of-lsassexe/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-get-rid-of-lsassexe/#comment-87444 tomliotta Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:27:37 +0000 #comment-87444 how would booting from a parellel system help…

It wouldn’t help. But that’s not what was suggested. The suggestion was to boot from a “parallel installation”, not a “parellel system”.

The parallel install would be on the same system but on a different disk. The different disk should probably be a CD, but you might be able to install a second hard drive that you could boot from. You’d use the clean booted operating system to run processes that cleaned the original hard drive (which you’d temporarily have as a second drive).

Tom

]]> By: pressler2904 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-get-rid-of-lsassexe/#comment-52858 pressler2904 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:19:20 +0000 #comment-52858 Just a note: lsass.exe is a windows process (Local Security Service). Apparently, your has been corrupted or infected in some way. Follow the steps above and you SHOULD be able to fix the issue: if not, you will need to boot from a parallel installation (another hard drive with Windows installed, or a PE disk like Bart PE or UBCD4Win) and run a virus scan and any other necessary remediation steps from the parallel install.

FYI, one well known virus which might cause issues with lsass.exe is “W32.sasser.worm” – the sasser virus

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