![]() ![]() It is strictly a post-infection removal tool. ![]() The Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool does not replace an antivirus product. The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, located in the System32 folder, helps remove specific, prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista & Windows Server. My concern is, if a PCI audit is run on our enterprise, we may be popped for not having it, even though it may actually be installed.Malicious Software Removal Tool (MRT.exe) # Obviously, this is not our primary means of protection but its something we still want to use in our environment. ( )” If this is already happening from our WSUS environment, I’m not as worried about performance as it should be the same. After you download the tool, the tool runs one time to check your computer for infection by specific prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps remove any infection it finds. “Microsoft releases a new version of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool every month. ![]() The research that I’ve done on MSRT from Microsoft says that every time a new version is installed on a machine (monthly) it is also run on the machine to check for anything that may be infecting it. I’m curious to know how others utilize this tool (if at all) and how they target and schedule the “Run” fixlet so as to only run after a new version of MSRT is installed on a machine. However, I believe that, since it is not being run in BigFix, this is the reason the machine reports it not installed to WSUS. In Bigfix, I have a baseline created that contains both MSRT - Deploy and MSRT - Upgrade, but was notified that the MSRT - Run tool would degrade performance pretty heavily if its action was taken so it was left out. ![]() One patch in particular always shows up as needed for these machines and that is the current months release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). I’m working on a patching strategy for our company and we are transitioning from Microsoft WSUS to Bigfix.Ĭurrently, I have moved around 650 machines into a WSUS container that has all WSUS patches declined so as not to interfere with Bigfix patching on those machines and to still get WSUS reporting data in case any patches fail to install or are needed. ![]()
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