I don't really know what happened. I went to open my 6 news bookmarks in Edge (with the ublock plugin) and I opened a couple articles in tabs to view later, and then my system started locking up. Mouse curser had latency in the seconds and things were not responsive. It took forever to mouse over to the window close button and when it did it asked if it was okay to stop downloads, despite the fact I wasn't downloading anything. Once I closed that things where a little better, but I opened task manager which showed "System Interrupts" at 18% CPU activity and my system was still a bit laggy so I hit the reset button on my case (as I doubt anything malicious would be set to run at startup) and things seem to be fine now. I have no idea what that was, as those 6 sites are tech sites I visit regularly without issue (Engadget, Cnet, ZDnet, TechCrunch, TechRadar, wired) so I'm pretty sure it was a bad ad that skipped through uBlock.
Any ideas of what it might be so i can avoid it?
Any ideas of what it might be so i can avoid it?