Is anyone else having this problem?
Both Skype and Firefox are freezing and becoming unkillable due to "\Driver\AFD".
I'll open Firefox and it won't work, it just sits there, "Connecting...", then I'll try and close it and the process will become unkillable. If I use the steps on the "unkillable processes" blog post by Mark Russinovich I find the IRP belongs to "\Driver\AFD", which I believe is the Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock.
I thought this was only a Firefox issue, but now Skype is also becoming unkillable when I try to close it, and I find it's the same "\Driver\AFD" causing the problem.
THREAD fffffa80073c7060 Cid 0c1c.1214 Teb: 000000007ef8f000
Win32Thread: 0000000000000000
WAIT: (Executive) KernelMode Non-Alertable
fffff88009907840 NotificationEvent
IRP List:
fffffa8007b6e670: (0006,0310) Flags: 00000404 Mdl: 00000000
...
Owning Process fffffa80079c9060 Image: Skype.exe
0: kd> !irp fffffa8007b6e670
Irp is active with 4 stacks 4 is current (= 0xfffffa8007b6e818)
No Mdl: No System Buffer: Thread fffffa80073c7060: Irp stack trace.
cmd flg cl Device File Completion-Context
...
>[ 12, 0] 0 0 fffffa8007b5b670 fffffa8007adf2f0 00000000-00000000
\Driver\AFD
Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
I've seen the suggestions on Microsoft Support suggesting that I just replace afd.sys. But does anyone know what's causing this? Is anyone else having this issue?