Vista home laptop trouble

My wife's laptop has picked up a world of trouble.

It's kept fully updated and runs Avast normally. It started crashing randomly and turning off its own firewall & security centre. We haven't been able to run a virus scan without it either locking up or otherwise crashing before completion.

We've tried Kaspersky & Trencillin housecall in normal mode & safe mode but they keep getting shut down.

All these problems may or may not be associated with a daughter home from uni who has been using her external drive with this laptop.

I've got an Ubuntu disk I'm going to try but I'm open to other suggestions.

Tim

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