Handle Leak in winlogon.exe

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winlogon.exe handles increase at a very steady and consistent pace. Observing the "handle count" value in Task Manager, handles will increase by one, then another, then about a 5 second pause, then another and another, 5 second pause, repeat forever. Almost rythmic.

Virus scan comes up clean. Reinstalled SP1; no effect.

Running XP Pro on a Dell 2.4ghz 1gb ram.
 
The problem was caused by a particularly nasty trojan named Backdoor.Beasty. Cleaned this and the handle leak went away
 
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