How do I use the Malicious Software Removal Tool? 1

[OfficeAnimal]

Windows keeps updating something it calls a Malicious Software Removal Tool.
Where is it?
How do I use it?

Thanks

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[strongm]

It is something that runs automatically in the background once a month. You don't have to do anything. The updates simply make sure that it has the latest malicious software fingerprints and heuristics

(Note that it is possible to download a standalone version that you can run at will if you really want:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx)

 

[goombawaho]

Why don't you ask a better question first: SHOULD I use it?? Is it any good??
Answers: "Why not, couldn't hurt" and "not very good". If you have a specific problem, there are better tools. If you want a general scanner, there are better ones. Short list:

The ones marked with an asterisk I would consider a regular use tool.
*cwshredder
gmer
rkill
combofix
*malwarebytes anti-malware
*roguekiller
*tdsskiller
*junk removal tool



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Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Thanks folks

If it runs automatically once a month then I'll leave it lie.
I already run MalwareBytes once a week.

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[technome]

I already run MalwareBytes once a week."
Wish I could get my clients to run it weekly....that only happens after they have major malware issues a few times... only then do they find religion. I have a couple clients I would need to waterboard for a month before they would run it weekly.


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[goombawaho]

Well.............. you never clean off your shoes unless you step in.......... something.

"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.