Okay, so, quick background: my Dell Inspiron 1525 (running Vista) abruptly stopped working back in January--literally was working fine until I shut it down, went on vacation, and came back and Vista wouldn't boot. Waited seven months and had it repaired in August and apparently there was a virus on it.
It's been running fine and yesterday I purchased ESET NOD32 Antivirus software because I'm not a fan of McAfee and Norton was a bit too expensive (I only needed one license, not three), and I had a notification from ESET saying my operating system is not up to date. It suggested I install some updates, which I can list in another post if I need to, because about 10 minutes after I installed these updates, my computer crashed. Just died randomly. I turned it on only for it to crash again, kept trying in desperation, and finally was prompted to do a system restore to a previous time when Vista was working properly. Now I have this prompt to install the updates again but I'm afraid that these are what caused the crash.
The last time my computer abruptly shut off like that, it was because I had it on my bed and it was overheated, but this time it was on my desk so there was a bit of air flow circulating underneath, and I don't know a lot about computers but it was the operating system that needed repairing, not time to cool down.
