About Me

I’m Hamman Samuel, a student of Computer Science at the American University of Nigeria. Prior to getting into university, I have a National Diploma in Computer Science. All the tutorials I share here are as a result of spending a lot of time on the Internet, and practising what I learnt. I hope this helps someone, just as others’ tutorials and free knowledge helped me.

5 comments so far

  1. bibomedia.com on March 7, 2008

    :)

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  2. Kris on January 22, 2009

    Hi Hamman
    The recent version of AVG was able to quarantine ‘lsass.exe’ to its virus vault. Subsequently, at every boot up of Win XP, repeat message stating ‘unable to locate windows\system\lsass.exe appears.On clicking ‘ok’, this pop up disappears only to re-appear at the next boot up. My question:-
    (a) Is this file essentially required?
    (b) Is not, can I stop the display of this repeat message?
    (c) Alternatively how can I restore /obtain this particular file.
    Regards
    Kris

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    • Hamman on January 22, 2009

      Hello Kris,
      The file lsass.exe is one of the launch files for one of the virus I discussed on this blog. The virus got control of various resources of your PC by running lsass.exe, but this is also the name of a system file. The system file is located in \windows\system32 not \windows\system. All this is to show that the message you get is a left-over effect of the virus contamination.
      The virus must have made an entry in your registry to launch the bogus lsass.exe file at startup. Now that AVG has removed the file, the system can’t find the file to launch.
      Now to stop this message from appearing again and again, the best thing to do is to remove the entry from your registry, which is a tricky process if you are not an advanced user. Alternatively, the following method may be helpful:
      1. Click Start
      2. Select Run
      3. Type msconfig in the run box
      4. Click on the Startup tab (the last one to the right)
      5. Scroll down and try to locate lsass.exe under Startup Item
      6. Or expand the Command area and look for an entry like C:\Windows\System\lsass.exe
      7. Uncheck the entry lsass.exe when you find it
      8. Click OK
      9. Say Yes to the restart prompt
      10. When you’ve rebooted you will be told by the system that a startup item was changed. You can check the option of not showing this message again and again

      That’s all. Let me know how it went :)

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  3. Enrique on September 21, 2009

    Hi Samuel
    I’ve seen your profile at rentACoder.com
    I’m needing a fast tweak to a facebook app… are you available?

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    • Hamman on September 21, 2009

      Hi Enrique, Nice to hear from you! Yes, I’m available on RentACoder, you could send me details of the project, I’d love to help. I’d prefer to work through RentACoder. Thanks for contacting me

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