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![]() SHOULD I INSTALL MICROSOFT MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL INSTALL The MRT is an essential tool to making sure your Windows Update process completes successfully … No one visiting this site … should disable MRT using the instructions given above.” Very Bad Advice? You write: “MRT was designed to remove a very limited set of virus/malware programs that interfere with the normal Windows Update process …. This sounded authorative, at first, but then, hang on, MRT removes ONLY a subset of well known Virus/Malware and 1) There is no mention of the rationale in the details MS give. 3) Why doesn’t MS make sure AV etc program makers are advised of any viruses they’d like removed …? It sounds like a great rationale to me so why not? 2) Any decent virus/malware program will have already removed these threats (IF they are present) If it/they haven’t THAT is the problem. ![]() I have, I think, a very good set of malware detection and removal tools (eg Malawarebytes, Spybot) a good antivirus program (Avast) and a fine firewall (Privatefirewall). I also use Firefox (never IE) and have the NoScript addon. I scan periodically using the F-Secure online facility. This is in a way irritating as I would love my MS problems to have come from some common virus or malware! My “proof” of the efficiency of my security is that I have to date never had any infection. Rather than go to the trouble of designing a special piece of software for a (generally) non-existant problem (assuming most people have decent enough anti-virus etc progs installed) it would have been more efficient to simply check for the presence of specific viruses that would hamper any update process AS A PART OF THAT update process, and then to notify the user IF there was a problem. ![]() ![]() SHOULD I INSTALL MICROSOFT MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL UPDATE SHOULD I INSTALL MICROSOFT MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL DOWNLOAD.SHOULD I INSTALL MICROSOFT MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL UPDATE.SHOULD I INSTALL MICROSOFT MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL INSTALL.
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