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Grant O.
April 30th 03, 04:24 AM
My CPU is running at 100% all the time under Windows XP
Pro. This just started after using Norton's LiveUpdate to
update my AntiVirus definitions which asked me to re-
boot. I've contacted Symantec, but so far they haven't
offered a solution.

When viewing the task manager, two tasks are eating up
most of the CPU cycles: 1) lsass.exe [which I'm told is
the Local Security Authentication Server] and 2)
svchost.exe. Any ideas of what these two modules are
attempting to do? This is not the Q811493 hotfix problem.
I haven't installed that. Any ideas on how to
troubleshoot the problem and hopefully resolve it?

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