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Read the following carefully and notice the double AA

 

ISAASS.EXE is a Windows file

 

ISASS.EXE is Malware and should definitely be cleaned.

 

 

 

Just wondering!

 

Dave

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Posted

Taken out of context - it seems so lonely.

 

Filenames tell you nothing in this respect.

 

Actual fully qualified path and filename tells you only slightly more

than nothing. It may suggest that Microsoft does indeed ship a file

with that name and install it in that location, and the reverse that

this is not a filename that Microsoft ships - or that this file has the

right name but is in the wrong place - and - there are known

malware programs that take advantage of this same name trick.

 

For instance, in Win98 it is possible (with proper access) to put

a malicious file named rundll32.exe in IIRC the "system" directory.

On my old system anyway, most calls to rundll32.exe result from

fully qualified paths (mostly registry entries) except one I noticed

called IIRC LoadPowerProfile.

 

If you want to see how often it runs, do what I did. I placed a

copy of notepad there renamed rundll32.exe and went about

my business.

 

So, in this scenario rundll32.exe is both a windows file and

a malware file (or notepad renamed) depending on where it is

and what it is doing there.

 

"~BD~" <~BD~@no.mail.afraid.com> wrote in message

news:ee2c2$tPJHA.3932@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue">

> Read the following carefully and notice the double AA

>

> ISAASS.EXE is a Windows file

>

> ISASS.EXE is Malware and should definitely be cleaned.

>

>

>

> Just wondering!

>

> Dave

>

>

> </span>

Posted

Thank you FTR and Mr Lipman. Here is the original thread:

 

 

 

"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:1225757072_58971@pegasus.annex.net...

Linda

 

Read the following carefully and notice the double AA

 

ISAASS.EXE is a Windows file

 

ISASS.EXE is Malware and should definitely be cleaned.

 

Which AV and other Malware\Trojan cleaners do you have

 

--

Peter

 

 

"Linda" <mylindy@iowatelecom.net> wrote in message

news:1225754876_58761@pegasus.annex.net...

I have been getting this popup notice:

I keep clicking Deny. I've read that it's a trojan and I've also read that

it's a process of the Microsoft security. How do I know for sure which one

it is? I've scanned the computer with Avast and asquared, also done an

online scan, and they are not showing any problems.

Please help if you can.

Linda

 

 

Comments from Peter Foldes invited, bearing in mind the comments from FTR

and David H Lipman.

 

Dave

 

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Guest Peter Foldes
Posted

You sick . Did you not read the correction after and not only that the emails that was exchanged after with the OP which you of course did not see.

 

Someone should put you in a straight jacket and leave you in there where the sun don't shine

--

Peter

 

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others

Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

 

"~BD~" <~BD~@no.mail.afraid.com> wrote in message news:OigPBguPJHA.5076@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue">

> Thank you FTR and Mr Lipman. Here is the original thread:

>

>

>

> "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:1225757072_58971@pegasus.annex.net...

> Linda

>

> Read the following carefully and notice the double AA

>

> ISAASS.EXE is a Windows file

>

> ISASS.EXE is Malware and should definitely be cleaned.

>

> Which AV and other MalwareTrojan cleaners do you have

>

> --

> Peter

>

>

> "Linda" <mylindy@iowatelecom.net> wrote in message

> news:1225754876_58761@pegasus.annex.net...

> I have been getting this popup notice:

> I keep clicking Deny. I've read that it's a trojan and I've also read that

> it's a process of the Microsoft security. How do I know for sure which one

> it is? I've scanned the computer with Avast and asquared, also done an

> online scan, and they are not showing any problems.

> Please help if you can.

> Linda

>

>

> Comments from Peter Foldes invited, bearing in mind the comments from FTR

> and David H Lipman.

>

> Dave

>

> --

>

></span>

Posted

Do you mean this one?

 

 

 

"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:1225850080_65240@pegasus.annex.net...

Linda

 

I am sorry I mistyped .

 

It should have been an L not an I for the first letter of the valid Windows

file

 

--

Peter

 

 

It should be noted that the date/time stamp of the above was 05 November

2008 01:55

 

My illuminating post here was made at: 05 November 2008 01:44 Eleven

minutes earlier

 

Times GMT

 

You have been caught out yet again, Mr Foldes!

 

Dave

 

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"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:uWBucpuPJHA.4372@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

You sick . Did you not read the correction after and not only that

the emails that was exchanged after with the OP which you of course did not

see.

 

Someone should put you in a straight jacket and leave you in there where the

sun don't shine

--

Peter

 

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others

Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

 

"~BD~" <~BD~@no.mail.afraid.com> wrote in message

news:OigPBguPJHA.5076@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue">

> Thank you FTR and Mr Lipman. Here is the original thread:

>

>

>

> "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:1225757072_58971@pegasus.annex.net...

> Linda

>

> Read the following carefully and notice the double AA

>

> ISAASS.EXE is a Windows file

>

> ISASS.EXE is Malware and should definitely be cleaned.

>

> Which AV and other MalwareTrojan cleaners do you have

>

> --

> Peter

>

>

> "Linda" <mylindy@iowatelecom.net> wrote in message

> news:1225754876_58761@pegasus.annex.net...

> I have been getting this popup notice:

> I keep clicking Deny. I've read that it's a trojan and I've also read that

> it's a process of the Microsoft security. How do I know for sure which one

> it is? I've scanned the computer with Avast and asquared, also done an

> online scan, and they are not showing any problems.

> Please help if you can.

> Linda

>

>

> Comments from Peter Foldes invited, bearing in mind the comments from FTR

> and David H Lipman.

>

> Dave

>

> --

>

> </span>

Posted

Oh yes! I forgot to add ................

 

"the emails that was exchanged after with the OP which you of course did not

see"

 

A reminder.

 

"Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others

Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged".

Posted

Seems as if one of your own colleagues 'over there' doesn't believe you

either, Peter Foldes!

 

 

"bluepoint" <noone@si.invalid> wrote in message

news:1225862618_65934@pegasus.annex.net...

<span style="color:blue">

> Hmm, could be you have a typo? You have it reversed.

> LSASS.EXE = Windows file

> LSAASS.EXE = non Windows file</span>

 

 

HTH

 

Dave

 

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