![]() ![]() The team also supplies the core antimalware technology (including the scanning engine and malware definition updates) to products such as Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Safety Center Beta, Microsoft Antigen, and the upcoming Microsoft Client Security release. As part of this investment, Microsoft has built a dedicated Antimalware team that is responsible for researching malicious software, spyware, and other potentially unwanted software as well as the release and maintenance of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) and Windows Defender. ![]() Invariably, each Patch Tuesday includes an item named Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, a.k.a.Microsoft has made significant investments over the past few years in the research of malicious software (or “malware”) and in developing technology to help customers mitigate the security risk that it creates. Here’s how Microsoft describes MSRT on its Download Center page: Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) helps keep Windows computers free from prevalent malware. MSRT finds and removes threats and reverses the changes made by these threats. MSRT is generally released monthly as part of Windows Update or as a standalone tool available here for download.įigure 2 features a screencap from Windows 10 showing a fairly recent MSRT release: IDGįigure 2: Notice that the WU download uses the same KB and version numbers as the File Explorer item in Figure 1.Īs part of the normal update drill for most Windows users - except those who get their updates through their organization’s own update servers, on their own calendars - the MSRT gets run every Tuesday as a matter of routine. This means that many, if not most, Windows desktops get an obligatory malware check-and-repair run at least once a month. MSRT can be run on its own, but is not used in that way very often. ![]() Meet the Microsoft Safety Scanner (MSERT.exe) That said, the download page is always there, updated monthly, ready for access. ![]()
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