25 Augusti 2023 - 06:06

This silent and unobtrousive approach taken by Microsoft is quite deliberate -they understandably don't want user's even suspecting that this is a substitute for a fully fledged anti-virus product.

This comes down each month through Windows Update and performs a stealthy malware scan as part of the Windows Update schedule. In order to bolster the overall security of their Windows operating systems, Microsoft publishes every patch Tuesday an updated Malicious Software Removal ( MSRT) tool.

UPDATE: 26th Feb 2015 -Upgraded script to v1.1 in this article to give it a longer life (by cycling through major KB versions numbers as well as minor ones).
