Vista - Malicious Software Removal Tool?

Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, OEM on a new HP computer.

I receive regular updates to something called MS's Malicious
Software Removal Tool. I Goggled that term, and found a MS
site urging me to download the tool.

Question: Is that tool already a part of Vista? If not,
why do I receive updates to it? (I have not installed it
myself.)

Thanks.

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CWLee
Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
promote for performance, not preferences.

From: "CWLee" <cdubyalee@xxxxxx>

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| Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, OEM on a new HP computer.
|
| I receive regular updates to something called MS's Malicious
| Software Removal Tool. I Goggled that term, and found a MS
| site urging me to download the tool.
|
| Question: Is that tool already a part of Vista? If not,
| why do I receive updates to it? (I have not installed it
| myself.)
|
| Thanks.
|
The Malicious Software Removal (MRT) utility is NOT a part of Vista. It is a downloaded
anti malware scanner provided by Microsft for Win2K, WinXP, Win2003 Server, etc.

You can manually download the utility, which is updated monthly for new threats, from
Microsoft or you can just allow this to be done automatically via Windows Updates.

Once downloded...

The utility is...
%windir%\system32\MRT.exe

Command line switches...

/? or /HELP = displays the command line switches
/Q = quiet
/N = detect only
/F = force extended scan
/F:Y = force extended scan and automatically clean infected files

The following is the resultant log file...

%windir%\Debug\mrt.log

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Harvard huh...
I didn't know they had a division at the California State University :-)

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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

CWLee wrote:
The Malicious Software Removal Tool is not part of Vista. It is offered from
Windows Update to machines running XP, Vista, and Server operating systems.
It scans for a limited number of malware programs. When using Windows
Updates or Automatic Updates, it will automatically run and you will not
get any feedback whatsoever, it runs in quiet mode and then it just deletes
itself. After it is finished, it writes the result to a log file.

To see the log file, run the following command from Start/Run:

notepad %windir%\Debug\Mrt.log

Malicious Software Removal Tool explanation -
http://www.microsoft.com/security/ma...e/default.mspx

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
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"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
It doesn't, but CalState has a division at Harvard! :-)

Thanks for your suggestions.

Seems like one can't ask the time of day in some newsgroups
without two or more posters going into name-calling mode.
:-(

Best regards.

Forgot the link about the Vista Logo deal....

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/index.html

Hypocrite.