What about Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 – v5.83 (KB890830) ?

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On my Win 7 Pro 64-bit production machine, MS updates is prompting me to install:
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 – v5.83 (KB890830)
Published 9-8-2020

Is it safe?

(Marathon Man – “Is it safe?”)

 

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? says:

hi ginz,

i dunno, haven’t installed anything or even run os microsoft since march, but it (MSRT)is in the catalog:

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB890830

and i always ran it using ghacks “disable heartbeat telemetry,” from 2016 to shut it up after it ran for the month(s):

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/20/disable-microsoft-windows-malicious-software-removal-tool-heartbeat-telemetry/

 

 

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MSRT is meant to check (and clean) your PC when you update Windows every month. I always run it and have never had an issue, nor a report from MSRT indicating an issue.

cheers, Paul

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The MSRT tool is safe. It will be sent now every 3 months instead of monthly. HTH

Have already installed it on 3 PCs running Windows 7.

 

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I intend to install the Windows MSRT along with the other two September CUs when the MS-DEFON reaches 3 or better.

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The MSRT has been around for years, hence the low KB number.  It checks for a number of known nasties, and is perfectly safe.  It gets updated and reissued from time to time, but retains the same KB number.  When a new version arrives via Windows Update, it runs silently in the background (that’s why “installing” may seem to take a long time), but once installed you can manually run it in the foreground at any time and display its results.  It’s at C:\Windows\System32\MSRT.exe.  For convenience, you can create a shortcut if you want.

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 20H2

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Bundaburra wrote:

The MSRT has been around for years, hence the low KB number.  It checks for a number of known nasties, and is perfectly safe.  It gets updated and reissued from time to time, but retains the same KB number.  When a new version arrives via Windows Update, it runs silently in the background (that’s why “installing” may seem to take a long time), but once installed you can manually run it in the foreground at any time and display its results.  It’s at C:\Windows\System32\MSRT.exe.  For convenience, you can create a shortcut if you want.

C:\Windows\System32\MRT.exe

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