MSE and Malwarebytes Version 1.7

I have always run MSE, MBAM Free, and Win 7 firewall for my security purposes. I am also behind an Apple Extreme router. This has served my purposes well. In Dec, ver. 1.7 of MBAM was released and I downloaded and installed it. That weekend, a friend

visited and used my computer for a short time. The following week, I could not get MBAM to run and I noted that MSE had not updated its definition files for a couple of days (This preceded the recent problems MSE had with updates). I uninstalled MBAM but

MSE would not uninstall no matter what course of action I pursued. I tried all the manual uninstall methods circulating around. I took my PC to a trusted PC shop and they had the same issue. In the end, they reformatted my hard drive and now all is well.

I highly suspect my friend may have unintentionally infected my PC in some manner. However, since this came on the heels of updating MBAM, I am not sure whether it was my friend or the MBAM update. I am now quite reluctant to reinstall MBAM Free because

I don't want to cause any more issues. Has anyone else incurred issues with the upgrade to MBAM 1.7? In the past couple of years, my MBAM has only found one or two issues, both with a Java exploit if I recall correctly. I have disabled Java for my IE browser

as a result. I am wondering if I really need MBAM at all. Yet, I am not sure that MSE alone is sufficient. I appreciate your opinions and shall await them before proceeding to reinstall the new version of MBAM Free. Thanks in Advance for your assistance.

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