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Letter was a wrong 'i' -> it is called lsass and not 'isass' -> It is called "Local Security Authority Subsystem Service" not "iocal security..." |
Fixed the example of naming - in Arial font which is used here as the font of article text, lowercase letter "L" and capital "i" look exactly the same! (I'm surprised noone has fixed this earlier) |
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Forcible termination of <tt>lsass.exe</tt> will result in the Welcome screen losing its accounts, prompting a restart of the machine.
Because lsass.exe is a crucial system file, its name is often faked by malware. The lsass.exe file used by Windows is located in the [[Directory (computing)|directory]] <code>%WINDIR%\System32</code>. If it is running from any other ___location, that lsass.exe is most likely a [[Computer virus|virus]], [[spyware]], [[Trojan horse (computing)|trojan]] or [[Worm (computing)|worm]]. Due to the way some systems display fonts, malicious developers may name the file something like Isass.exe (capital "
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