5sec background. I’m a computer tech and have been working in the field since about 2000, I’m pretty good with all the windows OS’s and very good at virus removal.
This is a new one on me…
Okay, got vista ultimate installed, been running perfectly, keep it up dated and all that jazz. Yesterday I got hit with a nasty little rootkit, I removed it and things seemed to be working fine for about an hour, I restarted the pc and explorer.exe crashes on startup with the faulting app as kbdsock.dll. I can not restart the process, anytime I do anything that tries to utilize the explorer.exe it crashes, even with just typing in a path in the run-task in task manager. I have looked on both microsoft and google and several other tech forums, and I can find no information on this past a couple german sites (which I cant read) and a single security threat assessment that lists it as not a threat. All I really need to know is who made this file, can I get a new copy of it, what does it do, what is it associated with. Anyone knows anything I would appreciate some knowledge here.
Almost forgot, safemode works. I have tried disabling everything non essential in the startup (microsoft and otherwise) and still found nothing. I’ve removed a few drivers of common problem ardware, like video and NICs and again nothing. I’m really at a loss here and would love some help.