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Is your Ethernet connection there?  if yes make sure its status is “enabled”. If no may be hardware issue (such as  modem, router etc.)

Resolved in my post of 10/24/18

Closing old items. This was resolved but I do not remember how

Resolved Long Ago

Problem resolved. Solution Unknown

Resolved Long Ago

I am using PIN on all Bitlocker Encryption.

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I went to WRE on the PC  I mentioned. I tried to find a way to access one of my Bitlocker drives without a password/key. I could not do it. Of course this does not mean it can’t be done.(my knowledge in this area is very limited)

I went as far as trying to use an image (created by Windows Back Up) that resides on one of my Bitlocker encrypted drives to “recover” the PC. The PC rebooted but could not find the image. You would assume from this that the Bitlocker encrypted image could not be accessed. This is one experiment performed by “tech limited” user.

I found this webpage https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/267720/why-when-does-patching-cve-2022-41099-bitlocker-bypass-require-extra-steps.

It seems to me that they think even if you update to patch the vulnerability it is meaning less. Reason being that a hacker can leave  one of there PCs  unpatched., so if they get hold of a Bitlocker encrypted drive they can access it from their unpatched PC using WRE. This leads me to believe that Bitlocker now has a vulnerability that can never be totally patched.

It might be time to use a non MS method of encryption.

 

How do I stop emails I am getting about this post ?

I am not sure I understand this but here I go anyway:

Let us say this gets resolved either by resizing Rec Partition or MS fixing.

Now what happens to my Bit Locker encrypted thumb drives a SSDs. Can someone who has a PC that has  not done the update plug in my BL Thumb drive into their PC and bypass the encryption ?

This would be a much more serious issue.  Hackers would leave one of there PCs not updated so they could use it get into BL Encrypted drives.

 

This happened on my system a few days ago. I tried everything I could think of and many online suggestions. I finally decided to use System Restore. I had Restore Point for a day before. When it completed the nasty little bugger was gone. I could be wrong but this seems to be a recent phenomenon, which makes me suspect Windows Update.

I had a similar issue and I found that changing the DNS from the ISP helped. I used google DNS of  8.8.8.8 and back up DNS of 8.8.4.4. That was awhile ago .Not sure if that would work now, so make a note of present DNS so you can change back to the way it was if it doesn’t work.

I know it has been over a year but did you ever resolve this issue ?  I have had had it for a long time. As you say Refresh of Desktop gets it back to normal until next time it happens.

Good Question. I would also like to know so I signed up to view replies.

Thank you for your questions.

Shell Infrastructure Host was taking 15% of Ram (consistently for 2 or 3 hours. I never saw it as top RAM user, but it was. Usually when idle top RAM is used by  Windows Explorer or Antivirus or Malwarebytes or  start up of a program. Shell Infrastructure Host is usually less than 1%.

Your excellent question about reboot was a good one. I rebooted and its back to under 1%. It has only been 20 minutes but if that changes I will post.