Talk:Malicious Software Removal Tool

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MRT

The tool is located in %sysroot%/windows/system32/MRT.exe and can be run. It is approximately 10MB big and Windows Update, or Microsoft Update respectively, if I remember correctly, offers definition updates as the updated component is only roughly 500-800KB in size. This being a program with basic options, a search engine and definition updates... what makes it different from an anti-virus program rather than Microsoft not calling it an anti-virus program? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.161.133.194 (talk • contribs) 16:10, 29 December 2006

(Good) Anti-Virus programs generally try to prevent an infection from happening in the first place. This just removes (some? most?) of the more common ones. Hope that explains it well enough. --MaXiMiUS 05:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism/Controversy

Perhaps there should be a "Criticism/Controversy" section. This program has no uninstall mechanism and Windows Automatic Updates keeps trying to install updates for it. This kind of program behavior may very well be considered malicious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.241.58.133 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 14 January 2009 88.241.58.133

This monthly update seems to take FOREVER to install on some systems - apparently a scan is done at the time the new verion is installed. It would be nice if there wasa progress indication as to what is happening. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes or more to install this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.65.38 (talk) 12:50, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft's Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool uninstalls itself automatically after running. Windows automatic updates doesn't install updates to it, but runs it before updates.Lifelonglego (talk) 00:00, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just removed the existing Controversy section, since it lacked citations from reliable sources and was original research. In addition, it employed weasel words. Next time, please write a VALID controversy section. And please take into consideration that Wikipedia is not a place for spreading anti-Microsoft propaganda. Fleet Command (talk) 06:32, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool v5.95

Version 5.95 was released on November 9th, 2021. I know this because I went into Windows Update to check for updates and this update was available. GabrielBloom28 (talk) 18:01, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]