Interesting, starting the 12th of January my XP Pro System started to
act bizarre, required reauthentication, then internet connection didn't
work. After many reboots I could not get to the desktop unless I got
into task manager and killed a process called something like lmass1.exe
- if I didn't do this it would just stall with only the wallpaper
displayed.
I am on DSL going through a Netgear RT314 and don't typically run
Internet Connection Firewall. Maybe I should?
Ran McAfee version 8, latest updates, and it found about a dozen things
including something called Downloader-RK that keeps reappearing. Then
Lavasoft Adaware SE latest version scanned through and found 571
objects. I quarantined these however Adaware froze the system after the
deleted progress bar went all the way over. After hard reset it
appeared (rerunning Adaware) that it had successfully quarantined the
stuff which I then deleted.
Run Adaware again and it starts finding more stuff, but then
mysteriously this system 30-second (maybe it was 60?) shutdown timer
window appears that you CANNOT stop via Task Manager, and it will force
system shutdown before AdAware can complete. So it looks like it was
specifically designed to knock Adaware out. It appears early in the
scan process - I wish I could do the scan 1 step at a time because it
appears to be triggered when it scans a specific DLL - but it's really
hard to tell.
Every time I run McAfee or AdAware I get the same stuff identified - as
though none of the previous efforts actually worked even though the
virus program (at least) acted like it had.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Thanks,
Gary
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