Microsoft Windows Malicious software Removal Tool

This article explains Microsoft Windows Malicious software Removal Tool which is a free tool will detect and remove the malicious software. It cannot be used to detect and remove antivirus.

Microsoft Windows Malicious software Removal Tool

Microsoft Windows Malicious software Removal Tool checks for malicious software and other unwanted program from Windows 2000, Windows 2003, XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 and it will remove the malicious software from the system. The tool will log all the scanning information in debug folder with mrt.log. Once the tool is complete the scanning it will display a detailed report about the current scan.

Administrator of the system can only able to run this tool in the system. This tool is not supported in Windows 98, ME and NT 4.0 server.

During the installation of the software you can view the list of malicious software list by clicking View a list of malicious software that this tool detects and removes link from the installation screen. From the list you can click any malicious software link to view the complete information about the software. Click the Next button to continue scanning the system. You can either choose the Quick Scan or Complete Scan or Custom Scan(check the below screen shot).

Windows Malicious software Removal Tool

Once the scan is completed it will display the consolidated result in the scan completion page (Check the below screenshot).

Windows Malicious software Removal Tool - Scan complete

You can view the summary report by clicking the link on the scan completed page. If your system is affected by any of the malicious software then the summary will show identified malicious software(Check the below screenshot).

Windows Malicious software Removal Tool - Scan result

Windows Malicious software Removal tool is just a tool to identify the Malicious software, it will not detect any virus during the scan.

This tool comes will support 32 bit and 64 bit operating system.

Windows Malicious software Removal tool 32 bit version can be download from the below link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en

Windows Malicious software Removal tool 64 bit version can be download from the below link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=585D2BDE-367F-495E-94E7-6349F4EFFC74&displaylang=en

This tool will be released on every second Tuesday of every month. New updates will include more malicious software. New updates will be available in the below link

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=40458

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