Talk:Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

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[edit] MRT

The tool is located in %sysroot%/windows/system32/MRT.exe and can be run. It is approximately 10MB big and Windows Update, or Microsoft Update respectively, if I remember correctly, offers definition updates as the updated component is only roughly 500-800KB in size. This being a program with basic options, a search engine and definition updates... what makes it different from an anti-virus program rather than Microsoft not calling it an anti-virus program?

(Good) Anti-Virus programs generally try to prevent an infection from happening in the first place. This just removes (some? most?) of the more common ones. Hope that explains it well enough. --MaXiMiUS 05:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)