13:29:32 - Starting KB890830 (Malicious Software Removal Tool) Downloader Windows 8 just came out today so haven't had the time to test there! This script should work in both the x86 and 圆4 releases of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. I find it takes just a couple of minutes in my environment to do it's job.

The script is attached to this article as MSRT_. If this article gets more than 5 votes, Darren Collins gets a Thorntons double chocolate dairy ice cream. Once the tools runs, it puts it's stamp in the registry which Windows Update finds and therefore marks the tool as being no longer required. The solution we came up with is to have a script which downloads and executes the latest software removal tool directly from Microsoft. The Atkin cul-de-sac is now your home.īut fear not. If a new MSRT has been released the result is that this update will always be pending, and thus your reboot cycle will never end. For example, we execute a sequence of tasks called 'Run Windows Update Script' and 'Reboot' until no more updates are left. This means that should you have client tasks which utilise the Windows Update API objects you could hit an infinite loop. The one fly in the ointment with this tool is that is doesn't appear to run if triggered through the Windows Update Agent API (like in our Windows Update script). 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).

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