Lsass exe repair

[mercedes23]

just reinstalled XP home, and 2 weeks later logged in and received the lsass.exe error. It's a Dell and i cant get any higher that c:\windows to extract anything Ideas? I've been reading that this is related to trojans or malware

 

[phil22]

Please post the full error message.
lsass.exe can be either a legitimate Microsoft file (Local Security Authentication Server)
or a harmful trojan, depending on where it is located in your folder structure and it's exact spelling.

 

[mercedes23]

Turns out that the error was a bad OS from the fall my laptop received. When I ran the windows diagnostics, device 1 (my drive) failed. I researched some other ideas, before ditching the drive as bad, and reinstalled the OS. The PC seems fine now...(The lsass error wasn't particularly descriptive) Thanks for replying though.