Yesterday I had a routine Windows update.

One of the items was a "Malware removal tool" and when it was installing something jammed up and I got impatient and cancled the update and started again.

My questions is this.

Would that "tool" have been a one time process? Or was it added to my MSE package?

The point being, do I have to go find the tool and make sure it does it's complete process OR has it been incorporated into my regular MSE protection package?

It was described as a Malware Removal Tool in the install dialog but there is nothing listed as such in my installed updates list.

Seeking advice.

Thanks.


best regards,
mike

As I understand it it is a run once exe and not part of the MSE package.

I'm concerned that I mistakenly stopped it's execution by misinterpreting the time it was taking as some sort of stall. As soon as I clicked "cancel" I regreted having doen so.

I don't necessarily think I have malware, but if MS thought I might, I'd like to give it a chance to run through.

Is there any way to figure out what tool it was and if I can *re-execute* it?


Thanks.

best regards,
mike

Mike, I don't know if this is what you're referring to but there was a problem in the recent MS updates.

There were 8 that got "rejected" several times on my machine (and on countless others according to the MS Answers websites) :

KB2722913
KB2705219
KB2712808
KB2731847
KB2647753
KB2729094
KB2732487
KB2732500

* according to here the offender was KB2647753.

I installed the first 4, then the others one by one re-booting each time. A PITA, but it worked for me.

It should be fixed now according to MS ..........;

Good luck,
Jerry

Thanks Jerry,

I was just looking at some posts upstairs as well.

Every thing installed fine on my second try and I ran an Update inquiry today and it says I'm 100%.

So I guess the install hang up wasn't as bad for me as some people.

best regards,
mike

The Malware software removal tool comes out every month on the second Tuesday and runs its self and deletes it self it if finds nothing. If not then I suppose another message would come up that it had removed some malware (and it does not check everyone but current ones out probably or newer ones) that you may not know about or your anti-virus software. It runs, it ends its gone then and taken out if nothing found.

Thanks for explaining.

mike_mccue


Thanks for explaining.

It just checks for a few known likely malware components at launch and gets updated every month.  It doesn't delete itself the latest version is always available to do more detailed checks as required.

Just run MRT at any time from the Windows start menu 'Run...' or from a command prompt simply by typing MRT.

It will show various runtime options you can choose from if you are not sure it had time to complete at install time.  It is standalone and doesn't run any background processes when installed it only runs when instructed to.

Several versions ago that would have made perfect sense to me.

I can't find the run dialog in my Win7 install.

I feel like a dinosaur.

:-)

Thanks.

best,
mike

Hopefully it replaces its self every month, I hate to go through the computer and find old ones. I did not know that about the Malicious Software Removal. Perhaps I will not download it anymore, since............well, I ran it and it is running now, but it found nothing before. I think it ought to remove its self with a new month's version.