Removing Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2008 (KB890830)

Something that has happened to my system since the 30th June is causing it to hang instead of presenting the Welcome screen after the display has gone into power-saving mode and locked.

I did a system restore to the 30th of June and all was well. Windows Update applied a bunch of fixes and the hangs came back. I did another System restore to the 30th of June and turned off the automatic application of fixes. Something turned it back on again, and the fixes have been applied again. So I turned off Windows update again, and now I'm removing the fixes manually.

The challenge is Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2008 (KB890830). It doesn't appear in Add/Remove programs, even with updates shown (I've already removed KB953432 and KB951978). Is there a way to remove it? The writeup implied that it downloads and executes once a month, so perhaps there is nothing left to uninstall after it has run?

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