Newsgroup Address..

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Would anyone happen to know the MiscroSoft Newsgroup subscription address
for the Malicious Software Removal Tool?

Elaine Beauxrauxgard-Weiderhoff
 
This is close, but I need the newsgroup address for the Malicious Spyware
Removal Tool, it is also a private MS group, so it must be somwhere along
the same lines.

Thanks for your help!

Elaine
 
Elaine
The MSRT does not have its own newsgroup private or public.
Perhaps toy are confusing the private newsgroups for Microsoft
AntiSpyware/Windows Defender.
But those newsgroups do not apply to the MSRT.

The Windows Update or security newsgroups are appropriate as Pa Bear already
stated.
 
OK, let me get right to the point then...

When using Windows Update, where does it download the MSRT to? When I
select the custom option for installing available upadates I see it in the
list and when I select and install it it is nowhere to be found for use.

Thanks again!

Elaine
 
NJITGS said:
OK, let me get right to the point then...

When using Windows Update, where does it download the MSRT to? When I
select the custom option for installing available upadates I see it
in the list and when I select and install it it is nowhere to be
found for use.
Click to expand...

After it runs, and finds nothing, it deletes itself.

If you want to run it manually, download it from:

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-860b-5b397199cbf8/Windows-KB890830-V1.15.exe

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Malicious Software Removal Tool from Automatic Updates, runs once and
then stays in %windir%\System32 as MRT.EXE.

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Kurt,

See if you have mrt.exe in the system32 folder. ;-)

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Wesley said:
Kurt,

See if you have mrt.exe in the system32 folder. ;-)
Click to expand...

Well it should delete itself, or add a shortcut to All Programs, so
people can see and use it, in between updates.

Thanks for the correction, Wes. :)

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This is the note that I had from the link below...

[[Note The version of this tool delivered by Windows Update runs in the
background and then deletes itself. If you would like to run this tool more
than once a month, use the version on this Web page or install the version
that is available in the Download Center.]]
On-line version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

I do not know when that one was dated.

Updated: April 11, 2006 version reads...
[[Note The version of the tool delivered by Microsoft Update and Windows
Update runs in the background and then reports if an infection is found. If
you would like to run this tool more than once a month, use the version on
this Web page or install the version that is available in the Download
Center.]]
On-line version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

<shrug> Who knows? Maybe the Shadow does.

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Wesley said:
This is the note that I had from the link below...

[[Note The version of this tool delivered by Windows Update runs in
the background and then deletes itself. If you would like to run this
tool more than once a month, use the version on this Web page or
install the version that is available in the Download Center.]]
On-line version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

I do not know when that one was dated.

Updated: April 11, 2006 version reads...
[[Note The version of the tool delivered by Microsoft Update and
Windows Update runs in the background and then reports if an
infection is found. If you would like to run this tool more than once
a month, use the version on this Web page or install the version that
is available in the Download Center.]]
On-line version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

<shrug> Who knows? Maybe the Shadow does.
Click to expand...

The Wayback Machine shows it saying "deletes itself" as of the March 8,
2005 update. But it hasn't cataloged this page since last April, so it
could have changed anytime between April 01, 2005 and April 11, 2006.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401...osoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

But thanks again Wes, for letting me know about the change, as I don't
want to give out out-dated information.

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Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
Ah, the Wayback Machine. I cannot help but think of Mr. Peabody and his boy
Sherman. LOL Wanna hear my Dudley Do-Right impression? Nell. Oh, Nell.

I had been posting the same thing and then I just happened to be looking
around in system32 and spotted mrt.exe and decided that my advice was not up
to date either.

You are very welcome, Kurt.

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kurttrail said:
Wesley said:
This is the note that I had from the link below...

[[Note The version of this tool delivered by Windows Update runs in
the background and then deletes itself. If you would like to run this
tool more than once a month, use the version on this Web page or
install the version that is available in the Download Center.]]
On-line version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

I do not know when that one was dated.

Updated: April 11, 2006 version reads...
[[Note The version of the tool delivered by Microsoft Update and
Windows Update runs in the background and then reports if an
infection is found. If you would like to run this tool more than once
a month, use the version on this Web page or install the version that
is available in the Download Center.]]
On-line version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

<shrug> Who knows? Maybe the Shadow does.
Click to expand...

The Wayback Machine shows it saying "deletes itself" as of the March 8,
2005 update. But it hasn't cataloged this page since last April, so it
could have changed anytime between April 01, 2005 and April 11, 2006.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401...osoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

But thanks again Wes, for letting me know about the change, as I don't
want to give out out-dated information.

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Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
Click to expand...
 
Wesley said:
Ah, the Wayback Machine. I cannot help but think of Mr. Peabody and
his boy Sherman. LOL Wanna hear my Dudley Do-Right impression?
Nell. Oh, Nell. <snip>
Click to expand...

I didn't think you that old! ;-)

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Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
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"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
I am a 1955 model. ;-)

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Wes
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