

I thought I'm going nowhere with this malware-hypothesis so thought of other things. Nevertheless I ran a full scan with an ESET Smart Security 8 that I had just updated its virus signature database and. I was really confused why the malware didn't attempted to disable these programs. Surprisingly enough all of them worked as well: regedit, msconfig, cmd, gpedit.msc, services.msc, you name it. Then I decided to check other basic Windows tools and components and see if I can run them. So I thought it must certainly be a malware but just accidentally decided to see whether I can run Task Manager from the menu that appears by right-clicking on Taskbar and. One of them was that Ctrl+Alt+Del and Ctrl+Shift+Esc key combinations didn't work and everytime I pressed those keys nothing happened. It is a Dell Latitude E6400 running a Windows 7 Professional which when brought to me had lost some of its functionalities. Recently something weird happened to an old laptop of my cousin.
