Corrupted isass.exe
 

Hello NG,

Last week I had a power outage when I was using my desktop,
and when I tried to restart my computer I kept getting error messages
that Windows had encounters a problem and was shutting down to protect my
system.

After a couple of attempts to reboot I got an error message saying something
about my password not being correct, it apparently is a corrupted isass.exe
file.

This is an HP desktop and the setup disks are on a D:\ partition,
so during one of my attempts to reboot I selected the recovery console and
tried to recover that way, still no luck.
I do have a set of early XP disks from when I bought a laptop several years
ago, so I tried to reinstall from the disks.

I tried to reinstall and I tried to repair, both give me the same error
saying that my isass.exe.
I have tried to create a bootable DVD and boot from my DVD Drive,
all I get is a continuous loop of error messages saying that XP has
encountered an error and is shutting down or sends me back to the initial
boot screen.

When I bought this computer I never put in a password, since it is at home I
didn't feel the need.
How can a password file become corrupted when I never used a password.
I have also tried just hitting enter (blank password) and that gives me the
same error.
I have tried every password I might have ever used thinking I might have
forgotten, no luck.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
James

Corrupted isass.exe
 

From: "James"

| Hello NG,

| Last week I had a power outage when I was using my desktop,
| and when I tried to restart my computer I kept getting error messages
| that Windows had encounters a problem and was shutting down to protect my
| system.

| After a couple of attempts to reboot I got an error message saying something
| about my password not being correct, it apparently is a corrupted isass.exe
| file.

| This is an HP desktop and the setup disks are on a D:\ partition,
| so during one of my attempts to reboot I selected the recovery console and
| tried to recover that way, still no luck.
| I do have a set of early XP disks from when I bought a laptop several years
| ago, so I tried to reinstall from the disks.

| I tried to reinstall and I tried to repair, both give me the same error
| saying that my isass.exe.
| I have tried to create a bootable DVD and boot from my DVD Drive,
| all I get is a continuous loop of error messages saying that XP has
| encountered an error and is shutting down or sends me back to the initial
| boot screen.

| When I bought this computer I never put in a password, since it is at home I
| didn't feel the need.
| How can a password file become corrupted when I never used a password.
| I have also tried just hitting enter (blank password) and that gives me the
| same error.
| I have tried every password I might have ever used thinking I might have
| forgotten, no luck.

| Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
| Thanks
| James

ISASS.EXE -- isass.exe

or

LSASS.EXE -- lsass.exe

There IS a difference !


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Corrupted isass.exe
 

Since all the letters are lower case then I believe it is issas.exe
James

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "James"

| Hello NG,

| Last week I had a power outage when I was using my desktop,
| and when I tried to restart my computer I kept getting error messages
| that Windows had encounters a problem and was shutting down to protect
my
| system.

| After a couple of attempts to reboot I got an error message saying
something
| about my password not being correct, it apparently is a corrupted
isass.exe
| file.

| This is an HP desktop and the setup disks are on a D:\ partition,
| so during one of my attempts to reboot I selected the recovery console
and
| tried to recover that way, still no luck.
| I do have a set of early XP disks from when I bought a laptop several
years
| ago, so I tried to reinstall from the disks.

| I tried to reinstall and I tried to repair, both give me the same error
| saying that my isass.exe.
| I have tried to create a bootable DVD and boot from my DVD Drive,
| all I get is a continuous loop of error messages saying that XP has
| encountered an error and is shutting down or sends me back to the
initial
| boot screen.

| When I bought this computer I never put in a password, since it is at
home I
| didn't feel the need.
| How can a password file become corrupted when I never used a password.
| I have also tried just hitting enter (blank password) and that gives me
the
| same error.
| I have tried every password I might have ever used thinking I might have
| forgotten, no luck.

| Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
| Thanks
| James

ISASS.EXE -- isass.exe

or

LSASS.EXE -- lsass.exe

There IS a difference !


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Dave
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Corrupted isass.exe
 

From: "James"

| Since all the letters are lower case then I believe it is issas.exe
| James

You should not assume, you need to know because if it is ISASS.EXE (with an "I" not a "L")
then you are most likely infected with malware !


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Corrupted isass.exe
 

How would I determine which one is which?
If a lower case l looks like and upper case I, and you don't want me to go
by the rest of the letters, how do I determine the letter in question?

James


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "James"

| Since all the letters are lower case then I believe it is issas.exe
| James

You should not assume, you need to know because if it is ISASS.EXE (with
an "I" not a "L")
then you are most likely infected with malware !


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Corrupted isass.exe
 

"James" wrote in message
...
How would I determine which one is which?
If a lower case l looks like and upper case I, and you don't want me to go
by the rest of the letters, how do I determine the letter in question?

James


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "James"

| Since all the letters are lower case then I believe it is issas.exe
| James

You should not assume, you need to know because if it is ISASS.EXE (with
an "I" not a "L")
then you are most likely infected with malware !


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


The name of the program on my system is all lowercase in both windows
explorer and task manager. Any uppercase letters are a suspicious name.

Surely you can tell the difference between lowercase i and lowercase l. And
surely you can tell the difference between uppercase I and uppercase L. In
fact, lowercase l only looks like uppercase I if you are in a hurry.

Jim

Jim

Corrupted isass.exe
 

From: "Jim"



| The name of the program on my system is all lowercase in both windows
| explorer and task manager. Any uppercase letters are a suspicious name.

| Surely you can tell the difference between lowercase i and lowercase l. And
| surely you can tell the difference between uppercase I and uppercase L. In
| fact, lowercase l only looks like uppercase I if you are in a hurry.

| Jim


Uppercase and lowercase filenames are the same as the MS Windows OS' does not
differentiate filenames by their case.
LL.TXT = ll.txt = LL.txt = Ll.TxT, etc.

This is unlike the 'Nix type operating systems where the file; LL.TXT ll.txt LL.txt
Ll.TxT, etc.

The reason a malware author chooses the name ISASS.EXE is for the very nature of what is
happening in this thread -- confusion.

Malware authors obfuscate their malicious intent by naming files close to the name of
legitimate files such that they appear to be legitimate files by the use of a font that
makes differentiating certain characters difficult. I l 1

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Corrupted isass.exe
 

"James" wrote in message
...
How would I determine which one is which?
If a lower case l looks like and upper case I, and you don't want me
to go by the rest of the letters, how do I determine the letter in
question?

Copy/paste (the name) into notepad and then Iook at it in a different
font.

Corrupted isass.exe
 

Jim
Yes I can tell the difference between lowercase i and lowercase l.
And yes I can tell the difference between uppercase I and uppercase L.

In your next line " In fact, lowercase l only looks like uppercase I if you
are in a hurry."
So I copied and pasted the two letters in question, here they are ( l , I )
How can you tell the difference between the two letters?
They look exactly the same to me.

James



"Jim" wrote in message
...

"James" wrote in message
...
How would I determine which one is which?
If a lower case l looks like and upper case I, and you don't want me to
go by the rest of the letters, how do I determine the letter in question?

James


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "James"

| Since all the letters are lower case then I believe it is issas.exe
| James

You should not assume, you need to know because if it is ISASS.EXE (with
an "I" not a "L")
then you are most likely infected with malware !


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


The name of the program on my system is all lowercase in both windows
explorer and task manager. Any uppercase letters are a suspicious name.

Surely you can tell the difference between lowercase i and lowercase l.
And surely you can tell the difference between uppercase I and uppercase
L. In fact, lowercase l only looks like uppercase I if you are in a
hurry.

Jim

Jim

Corrupted isass.exe
 

Use a different font.

For instance, "View - text size - fixed" from the dropdown menu when
viewing an article will give you a fixed width font (with serifs).

"James" wrote in message
...
Jim
Yes I can tell the difference between lowercase i and lowercase l.
And yes I can tell the difference between uppercase I and uppercase L.

In your next line " In fact, lowercase l only looks like uppercase I
if you are in a hurry."
So I copied and pasted the two letters in question, here they are ( l
, I )
How can you tell the difference between the two letters?
They look exactly the same to me.

James



"Jim" wrote in message
...

"James" wrote in message
...
How would I determine which one is which?
If a lower case l looks like and upper case I, and you don't want me
to go by the rest of the letters, how do I determine the letter in
question?

James


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "James"

| Since all the letters are lower case then I believe it is
issas.exe
| James

You should not assume, you need to know because if it is ISASS.EXE
(with an "I" not a "L")
then you are most likely infected with malware !


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


The name of the program on my system is all lowercase in both windows
explorer and task manager. Any uppercase letters are a suspicious
name.

Surely you can tell the difference between lowercase i and lowercase
l. And surely you can tell the difference between uppercase I and
uppercase L. In fact, lowercase l only looks like uppercase I if you
are in a hurry.

Jim

Jim

Corrupted isass.exe
 

"James" wrote in message
...
Jim
Yes I can tell the difference between lowercase i and lowercase l.
And yes I can tell the difference between uppercase I and uppercase L.

In your next line " In fact, lowercase l only looks like uppercase I if
you are in a hurry."
So I copied and pasted the two letters in question, here they are ( l ,
I )
How can you tell the difference between the two letters?
They look exactly the same to me.

James


snip
As reported by OE (not clear which program prepares the output), the
characters inside the parentheses look like two lowercase l characters. As
reported by the default editor for OE (MS Word if I remember correctly), the
first one is a lowercase l and the second is an uppercase I.

Jim

Corrupted isass.exe
 

From: "Jim"

| snip
| As reported by OE (not clear which program prepares the output), the
| characters inside the parentheses look like two lowercase l characters. As
| reported by the default editor for OE (MS Word if I remember correctly), the
| first one is a lowercase l and the second is an uppercase I.

| Jim

No. The only editor for OE is OE.

MS Outlook from the Office Suite can use MS Word as the email Rich Text editor.



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Corrupted isass.exe
 

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "Jim"

| snip
| As reported by OE (not clear which program prepares the output), the
| characters inside the parentheses look like two lowercase l characters.
As
| reported by the default editor for OE (MS Word if I remember correctly),
the
| first one is a lowercase l and the second is an uppercase I.

| Jim

No. The only editor for OE is OE.

MS Outlook from the Office Suite can use MS Word as the email Rich Text
editor.



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Then, I don't understand why the letters were reported incorrectly in the
OP's message but were reported correctly in my reply. At least, that is
what I saw on my machine.

Jim

Corrupted isass.exe
 

From: "Jim"


| Then, I don't understand why the letters were reported incorrectly in the
| OP's message but were reported correctly in my reply. At least, that is
| what I saw on my machine.

| Jim

Misinterpration and fonts. A font with serifs are more distinguishable than simple fonts
like Arial or Verdana.

Reading these nes groups there have been MANY who have mistaed LSASS.EXE vs ISASS.EXE
LASASS (.EXE), is the Microft Local Security Authority Subsystem Service.
If you have ISASS.EXE then you may be infected with malware.

It is as smple as that.

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Corrupted isass.exe
 

Group,
I appreciate all the help, Thank you all for the good insight into the
little corners of windows.
However, I can't get past the warning message into the system at all, so I
can't change fonts, or look a the characters in word.

When I get the error message, the next message, on a BSoD, is that Windows
has detected a fatal error and is shutting down to protect the system, after
about three seconds the computer shuts off.

I'm going the go to another computer and see if I can make a bootable DVD
or CD and try to boot from the DVD drive.
I can still get into the BIOS so I can change the boot order.

I'll try the tomorrow morning and post my results.

Thanks again
James

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "Jim"


| Then, I don't understand why the letters were reported incorrectly in
the
| OP's message but were reported correctly in my reply. At least, that is
| what I saw on my machine.

| Jim

Misinterpration and fonts. A font with serifs are more distinguishable
than simple fonts
like Arial or Verdana.

Reading these nes groups there have been MANY who have mistaed LSASS.EXE
vs ISASS.EXE
LASASS (.EXE), is the Microft Local Security Authority Subsystem Service.
If you have ISASS.EXE then you may be infected with malware.

It is as smple as that.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp