Squiggly1
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I would run a virus scan on the drive. Not sure your level of computer expertise, but this can be done with a USB to SATA/EIDE adapter to connect to a second computer, or by connecting the drive to a 2nd computer as a slave or second drive.
If a virus cleaning doesn't work then hit F8 (most PC's) at startup to see if you can start with the command prompt to do a system file checker, then try last known good configuration.
I'm not sure if a corrupted password itself would cause this. Probably not. Probably the lssas program itself. Just to be sure you could try resetting your log on password with NT Registry & Password Editor. It's an offline program (freeware) that boots from CD at startup.
If you still can't get to the desktop, then try a repair install. Often a repair install doesn't fix these things. Then you're left with nothing but to reinstall Windows.
If you have the Sasser worm then here's Microsoft's removal tool http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx
If a virus cleaning doesn't work then hit F8 (most PC's) at startup to see if you can start with the command prompt to do a system file checker, then try last known good configuration.
I'm not sure if a corrupted password itself would cause this. Probably not. Probably the lssas program itself. Just to be sure you could try resetting your log on password with NT Registry & Password Editor. It's an offline program (freeware) that boots from CD at startup.
If you still can't get to the desktop, then try a repair install. Often a repair install doesn't fix these things. Then you're left with nothing but to reinstall Windows.
If you have the Sasser worm then here's Microsoft's removal tool http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx