Re: Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool

Thank you for the very comprehensive answers. However, your point on scans
being performed only on the updates, my updates including the Malicious
Software Tool's are automatic and they occur during the months (the last one
was on last Friday or Saturday). The time taken to install them is very
short and there is no automatic scan afterwards!
The other point on scheduling the time of the scan. I am not given the
option on a right click of the desktop icon, so where else can I schedule it
if I wanted to?

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Zygy" <zygy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for the information, but since the only way I can Run the scan
is from the shortcut Icon on the Desktop, my original question was:- does
this icon include all the Updates? If not, what do I use to initiate a
manual scan?

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Seeing as how mrt.exe is always placed in the same folder, if you place a
shortcut of mrt.exe on your desktop, it will always run the latest
version.

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One more bit of information. My computer is being scanned at 13.00 daily
for about 8-10min. and I can categorically say that this scan is not
initiated by any of my other programmes. I checked and rechecked! So, is
this Malicious Software Removal Tool scan?

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Again, mrt.exe only runs automatically when it is downloaded during the
monthly hotfix download cycle.
Can you make it run automatically? Of course, if you want to. Just
schedule it to run with the scheduling program. But it is limited in that
it only looks for a handful of the most common and troublesome malware
problems.

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"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is done automatically ONLY when the update is initially downloaded
during the monthly release cycle. After that it manual if you want it to
run.



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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!




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