Many users have reported the keyboard.exe process as a malicious application that is associated with a known variant of the SPYBOT worm, which is a malware program with spyware-like functionalities that can infect Windows-based systtems. Some user reports claim that the keyboard.exe process is implemented with the functionality of automatically creating registry keys and entries that, when injected into the Windows System Registry, can configure the infected system to allow the keyboard.exe process to automatically initialize during system startup. The same user reports state that the keyboard.exe process carries out the creation and insertion of these keys and entries into the Windows System Registry upon the successful placement and activation of the keyboard.exe process in the system. The same user reports also claim that the keyboard.exe process, upon its successful initialization during system startup, is capable of operating without user consent as a background process, in order to perform its spyware-like functionalities.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. keyboard.exe. is used by SPYBOT Worm, If you shut down keyboard.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop keyboard.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is SPYBOT Worm, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed keyboard.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as SPYBOT Worm, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if keyboard.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that keyboard.exe, belongs to, in this case SPYBOT Worm