Putting a Band-Aid on a cut that requires stitches will never allow the cut to heal, and may result in infection and gangrene that is hidden by the presence of the You need to PLUG the holes that are allowing the infection to take place in the first place. Using the MSRT to clean machines is intended as an acute-response mechanism, not a chronic-response maintenance utility. suggest to me that some machines are woefully out of date with regard to Security Updates. Kills the tasks and allows the removal by Sophos.īeing hammered by Conflicker. We are running Sophos Endpoint 9.5 config'd as per their recommendations, it detects it but can't clean if the AT tasks are running. We are getting hammered by Conficker at the moment and the only thing that consistently cleans it up is MRT.
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009) Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
It's important for both of you to realize that there is very little crossover between threats detected/protected by anti-virus software and threats detected/protected by the MSRT, Windows Defender, or other anti-malware software. The MSRT is an excellent resource to use for a 'quickcheck' on the sanity of those machines. The Malicious Software Removal Tool actually predates Windows Defender as a product, and inmuchas Windows Defender only ships on Windows Vista, that leaves quite a few Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems that might not have Windows Defender installed. In fact, it might be arguable that Windows Defender on a server machine is overkill, given the nature of threats Windows Defender is designed to protect against. I mean no offense in any way and am willing to repent of my evil ways if someone could just show me the "light"ĭaniel, the answer to your question is that not everybody runs Windows Defender on every machine. Specific and we are not talking about a $80 suite or $20 per seat enterprise AV tool.let alone anything with heuristics or adaptive technologies right? The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool helps remove specific prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 Microsoft I am sorry, but it's just this tool I liken to Microsoft Bob. Why should I even bother or deal with it - personally, when it comes in.I decline it all the time.never have installed it and for the life of me can't think of a good reason to. Why would/should we even bother with the MSRT? We have anti spam, anti virus everywhere, anti this and anti that, malware this and that and then to top it all off a firewall or two here and there. I have a question.I hope it is a good one too? It sounds good to me anyway.
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