"Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - January 2017(KB890830)" fails in my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 OS.

Hello.

Is anyone getting errors for "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
x64 - January 2017 (KB890830)" in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1? I did get the
KB3212646 without any issues. I also never had problems with MRT updates.

Thank you in advance.
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On 1/10/2017 11:58 AM, Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is anyone getting errors for "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
x64 - January 2017 (KB890830)" in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1? I did get the
KB3212646 without any issues. I also never had problems with MRT updates.

Thank you in advance.


I never use it or download its updates. I have three other
non-Microsoft anti-malware applications. Given the number of
Microsoft's security updates to Windows, Office, .NET, etc -- usually
several each month -- I just do not trust the Windows Malicious Software
Removal Tool.

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David E. Ross wrote:
On 1/10/2017 11:58 AM, Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is anyone getting errors for "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
x64 - January 2017 (KB890830)" in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1? I did get the
KB3212646 without any issues. I also never had problems with MRT updates.

Thank you in advance.


I never use it or download its updates. I have three other
non-Microsoft anti-malware applications. Given the number of
Microsoft's security updates to Windows, Office, .NET, etc -- usually
several each month -- I just do not trust the Windows Malicious Software
Removal Tool.

It's an on-demand scanner, and most likely signature based.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ons-of-windows

Apparently, you can stop it from being offered.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thre...l-tool.387995/

reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\MRT" /v DontOfferThroughWUAU /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

And I don't really pay attention to it all that much
one way or another.

It's never detected anything, so I haven't even seen the
quarantine response of the thing. I don't know if it detects EICAR,
so you can insert an EICAR and test it. While I see reports
that it "quarantined stuff", so far none of the descriptions
have been credible. There is at least one "fake" MSRT
out there, so when you see a report, you have to keep
that possibility in mind.

*******

This is my report right now. This is the result of
the quick scan.

C:\Windows\debug\mrt.log

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool v5.44, January 2017 (build 5.44.13400.0)
Started On Tue Jan 10 16:16:04 2017

Engine: 1.1.13303.0
Signatures: 1.233.3409.0
Run Mode: Scan Run From Windows Update

Results Summary:
----------------
No infection found.
Successfully Submitted Heartbeat Report
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Finished On Tue Jan 10 16:16:27 2017

Return code: 0 (0x0)

*******

This is a picture of a full scan running. I started
MRT from the command line, and asked it to scan. It's
not throwing errors. It was installed via (January)
Windows Update.

https://s24.postimg.org/43t5brath/mr...n_progress.gif

HTH,
Paul

Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is anyone getting errors for "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
x64 - January 2017 (KB890830)" in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1? I did get the
KB3212646 without any issues. I also never had problems with MRT updates.

Thank you in advance.

I never had problems until today. Weird. WU doesn't show the update
anymore, but I manually ran mrt.exe and it was dated January 2017! What
the frak? Oh well. Weird.
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Ant wrote:
Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is anyone getting errors for "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
x64 - January 2017 (KB890830)" in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1? I did get the
KB3212646 without any issues. I also never had problems with MRT updates.

Thank you in advance.

I never had problems until today. Weird. WU doesn't show the update
anymore, but I manually ran mrt.exe and it was dated January 2017! What
the frak? Oh well. Weird.

Do any other kinds of scans work properly ?

Paul

Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is anyone getting errors for "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
x64 - January 2017 (KB890830)" in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1? I did get the
KB3212646 without any issues. I also never had problems with MRT updates.

Thank you in advance.

I never had problems until today. Weird. WU doesn't show the update
anymore, but I manually ran mrt.exe and it was dated January 2017! What
the frak? Oh well. Weird.

Do any other kinds of scans work properly ?

MRT.exe's full scan seems to work overnight when I tried it.
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Ant formulated the question :
Hello.

Is anyone getting errors for "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 -
January 2017 (KB890830)" in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1? I did get the KB3212646
without any issues. I also never had problems with MRT updates.

Thank you in advance.

Just received my update notification and hid the Intel optional offer
immediately. the rest of the downloads, installations and MSRT scan
performed without any problems.

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