Graefin10
Graefin10 Dork
3/12/12 5:53 p.m.

My Dell laptop quit working today. Actually windows quit working. Long story short I closed all programs and did a restart. It took an abnormally long time to close. After the restart everything seemed to work as normal, however, I got the following "problem report and solution". It says and Intel Driver has stopped working properly and that I should download an update from the "ASUSTek Computer Website". Does this sound legit. or does is sound like a fishing attempt? It indicates that I may have to type in my password. Sounds fishy to me. Like I said, the computer seems to work fine now. It sure makes me nervous that nothing would work for a while until I did the restart.

BoxheadTim
BoxheadTim GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
3/12/12 6:05 p.m.

I'd check for viruses and spyware - Dell updates come from Dell via their website/updater, not ASUS.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker UltimaDork
3/12/12 6:05 p.m.

bearda
bearda New Reader
3/12/12 6:23 p.m.

Looks like you're not the only one with this error:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-hardware/intel-imsm-driver-has-stopped-working-properly/0bb52c36-dc84-453a-b470-130558acee8d

EDIT: Don't know if it's sending you to the same file as the link above, but one of the VirusTotal sources thinks it's a trojan and the rest don't know anything about it.

https://www.virustotal.com/file/1eb093a37ae1fb8794f0704f617d69f6268cecfd6526d741698ad250f9a3ee9f/analysis/1331595396/

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