Trojan-Downloader & Adware.Hotbar?

I'm wondering if MSE would have picked up on these as I was running another A/V & Firewall product that failed to detect them? This other product's support staff was no help their forums useless and in the end I spent $200 for virus/trojan removal and

also received 1 yr of tech support. I had posted on my clan forum about this issue and someone suggested MSE. I've downloaded it with no problems, installed it with no problems and it's currently doing what it's supposed to do.

Though I've been using MSE for only a very short time, I'm quite impressed. These forums have a TON of information. When I searched on trojandownloader I found a post and a reply was offered from MSE staff that gave instructions to fix the problem by installing

another downloadable product, using the MSE website or contacting customer service by phone. The Adware issue was also found in the forums and a solution offered. My other product offered no solutions but they did extend my subscription for an additional

90 for their POS software.

I'm in the process of buying another PC from a boutique manufactorer and plan on installing MSE pre-release on that machine if it's still available when it arrives. My new PC will consist of:

Cooler Master 942 HAF X

Processor: Intel Core i7 2700K 3.50 GHz (Unlocked CPU for Extreme Overclocking) (Quad Core) which they said can be overclocked to 4.5-4.8 GHz?

Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 (Intel Z77 Chipset) (Features Thermal Armor and Thermal Radar)

16GB DDR3 1600MHz

Power Supply: 1000W

Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (1TB Western Digital Caviar (7200 RPM) (Model: Black Edition)

Set 1 Raid Options: Configure HDD Set 1 to a Raid 1 Config - Mirror (Requires Two HDDs)

Hard Drive Set 2: MultimediaData: 1x (1TB Western Digital Caviar (7200 RPM) (Model: Black Edition)

Internet Access: Killer 2100 (Optimized for Online Gaming) Lag and Latency Reduction

Video Card(s): 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4GB (Includes PhysX)

They offer to overclock the GPU, should I have them do this?

OS Boost: FREE: Yes, Disable and tweak all of the non-crucial services on the operating system

Should I have them disable all of the non-crucial services on Windows 7 or will I have issues using MSE or anything else for that matter as I'm really not sure what they mean by disabling & tweaking? I can only assume they know what they're doing?

Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)

Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD)

So far my experiences with MSE and especially the forums leave me at a loss for words. Keep up the good work guys!!!

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