Flash update appears to have bricked my laptop; please don't laugh

I'm at a loss here.
So last night I was watching Netflix and YouTube, and the next thing I knew, Norton NIS started popping up multiple "Rootkit blocked" warnings, and then YouTube stopped working. It seemed like the Flash player malfunctioned. It would show an empty black box where the video is, and when I would right-click on it, it would just say "movie not loaded" in the context menu.
After a few minutes of YouTube not working at all, I got a dialogue box to install a Flash update, which usually happens at boot. Made sense, so I clicked on it, but it didn't fix anything. Norton popped up a few more identical "Rootkit blocked" messages, and then popped up a message that "Restart is required to continue fixing your computer."
I did backup my most important info, so I'm not completely stupid, but just as I suspected, once I hit the reboot, the computer bricked itself. It refuses to boot into Windows. I get an error message, then a black dialogue screen at BIOS or POST or whatever you call it that asks "Start Windows normally" or "repair mode." Starting normally just loops back to the same error dialogue, and repair mode just asks for boot disks, which I cannot find at the moment.
Now, if that were the only problem, that's one thing, but here's the real problem:
That whole process with Flash broken on YouTube and then Flash trying to update and Norton NIS mistaking the Flash update for a rootkit...it's happening on my second computer now. I'm not going to run a Flash update, and I'm not anxious to even reboot the computer anymore, until I can figure out what just happened here.
So can anyone help me? What might be going on?
It's an X220.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Well, thank you for all the responses; it's all turned out well enough. It seems that it was indeed a virus masquerading as a Flash update, and I'm inclined to think it happened because I skipped months and months of Windows Updates.
I'd been using a cloned SSD, so I dropped my old hard drive back in and went from there, installing all the Windows Updates and antivirus updates. I used a separate computer to scan the infected SSD over a USB adapter, and it turned up a single "trogan.gen" virus. Once it was cleaned up, I pulled off all my new files onto a separate hard drive and wiped the SSD, and then used it to clone the hard drive again. Back in business.
I suppose I could have tried to rescue the SSD without having to pull everything, but it was so much easier just to clone the hard drive again, since I didn't have any new paid software.

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