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win32k.sys is part of Windows, so if it's showing up as part of the problem, it's probably a symptom of something else. Make sure your anti-virus scans and database are up to date, and also make sure you're doing an anti-spyware scan.

I just got myself a laptop from my dad's workplace... and as I'm browsing I get hit by these seemingly 'official' warning pop ups sayin things like "Message from SYSTEM to ERROR at Windows has detected 47 critical errors."

Ok, I can buy that... but then my computer, having apparently achieved a miracules state of self awareness and gone through the internet on my behalf for solutions, actually OFFERS me website addresses from where I can update patches and changes to fix the various errors it has alerted me to.

Naturally this gets my suspicious juices flowing, but then to seal the deal I get messages from wonderful ladies such as Carla and Moni offering to go to their webcam websites for them to make me 'cum'. Naturally I declined.

Both pop ups, the error ones and the sexy ones are the same in design and all (according to the task manager) are from the CSRSS.EXE module that for some reason I am unable to shut down because "Access is denied"? Due to it being a critical system componant or something.

There is a spyware scanner in this compy but it's not a brilliant one, I'm gonna run off and get myself spybot, AVG... Norton or something, once I have scanned I will tell you how it went.

In the mean time if anyone can offer any advice as to what is goin on here? I find it unsettling when my own computer says access is denied after first offering my oral webcam sex. Get my drift?

The Founder

What you're seeing are popups delivered through the WIndows Messenger Service. It's easily turned off. This article has quick instructions: http://ask-leo.com/whats_the_difference_between_msn_messenger_windows_messenger_and_windows_messenger.html

HI all

I also seem to have been hit by some hideous virus/trojan whatever. It changed my web homepage setting, but also changed the url of any security sites I type in(by adding its own extra characters) rendering them unreachable. I ran several virus checkers like AVG and that identified a Backdoor virus and 'cured' it, but I still get a reference to csrss.exe on start-up, something to do with the the registry looking for some files that, I think AVG ditched. I also still get the url corruption. Is there a genius out there?

Regards

Steviebobs

csrss.exe has been running my hard drive up & down for about 1 hour now. I installed Security Task Manager & it reads all the other Tasks but not this one that is using about 20% of my resources.

I have a process also running in the background that is most obviously a trojan. I got it from my MSN messenger becausei accepted a file from someone i trusted. Well now it opens up conversations from my contact list and trys to send them links to more viruses ever five minutes or so. Its located in C Windows System32 Pekslr cssrs.exe Its running in my user processes but says i cant end it because its a system process. I have used just about every anti spyware anti virus program i can think of and have access to. I have tried deleting it from my registry and more. I have about 5 programs to end and manage task and processes. None of them can touch this thing. What should i do?

Hi
can any1 tell me wat csrssrs.exe do....my sys got slower then i checkes in task manager-->there i saw csrssrs.exe is using 70-80% of CPU usage.i cant able to delete it also my sys got very much slower...can any1 tell me how to cope up with tat

I keep getting after login csrss.exe error path/file access error.
After clicking ok, it disappears, there are no virus's or spyware on my pc.
how can I reinstall this and is there a problem?

I'd run the system file checker: http://ask-leo.com/what_is_the_system_file_checker_and_how_do_i_run_it.html

When I first boot up my computer (Windows XP home version) I get a "No Disk Windows" popup and it wants to "cancel, try again, or continue". After several "cancel" it goes away until the next boot up. Task manager tells me that it is coming from CSRSS.EXE. I have noticed that when "cancel(ing)" that it is stepping thru a process (McAfee Security system) once I get past the McAfee setup usually the next "cancel" clears it. Can any help me resolve this headache?

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