WARNING! I clicked on the website to read the article & got a huge red warning screen & the usual “call this number” to resolve, etc. Mouse wouldn’t work, pretty much locked up everything. Powered off the laptop & now it will not power back up - dead as can be.
I have access to another laptop (obviously), but now have to figure out what to do with the “dead” one. I do run a firewall & anti-virus.
WOW! I had one of those last week and it stayed up so I did a hard kill(just powered it off with the switch)on the computer and it came back up. Ran my usual daily scans after I restarted it and nothing was found. Usually WND is pretty reliable. But it was the same thing you described. Mouse wouldn’t work and alt-ctr-delete didn’t do anything so, power switch. Sorry. Guess my default when I get one again will be to go straight to the power switch.
Here is a link to the article via Townhall:
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2019/09/19/kirk-the-best-brother-ever-rip-n2553341