DavidR
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Well essexboy will probably be in bed now, 00:22am in the UK now. He is likely to be back on-line around the same time he was in his last posts.
Generally he would ask you to monitor it for a day or so and if no problems get back on the forums and confirm that is the case He will remove his tools and probably give some general advice for you to follow.
I would say keep MBAM, as a secondary scanner, no need to purchase the full version, though it is a one of lifetime license. I believe it is much better than S&D and I’m not a great fan of Windows Defender (WD), if you had avast and MBAM it sort of depreciates the need for WD. However, WD is free, comes pre-installed on Vista (if correct then I believe you can’t uninstall it only disable it), it is a resident solution. So it would be your choice on what to do, but it has been a bit of a passenger in this.
Since you run Vista and you have IE7, it is capable of running IE8 and IE9 so preferably updating to IE9 would give you enhanced security in IE, especially if you use it as your default browser and since IE is an integral part of the OS you should always keep it up to date.