MRT.exe's full scan progress shows infections, but its results shownone.

Why does during full scans, there are infections. After it is done
scanning for a few hours, it shows no infections. I am confused!

Thank you in advance.
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:45:20 -0700, Ant wrote:

Why does during full scans, there are infections. After it is done
scanning for a few hours, it shows no infections. I am confused!

Malware

Removal

Tool.

It does not scan for malware, it *REMOVES* some malware, the ones
Microsoft dislikes.

If there are still infections after MRT has run, you are in deep
trouble.




Thank you in advance.

It's cool,
Mand.

Ant wrote:

Why does during full scans, there are infections. After it is done
scanning for a few hours, it shows no infections. I am confused!

Although the file name is mrt.exe, the product name is [Microsoft
Windows] Malicious Software Removal Tool. When abbreviated, it is
called MSRT (not MSMSRT). Filenames often do not match product names.
For example, winword.exe is not for Windows Word but just Word.
msimn.exe was Microsoft's Outlook Express (which was first called
Microsoft Internet Mail and News).

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...l-details.aspx

So it said it found some potential malware. It's purpose is to remove
malware. When it got done and said there were no infections, well,
that's because it removed them. You started with some, it did its job,
and now you don't have them. If it reported the same pests at the end
that it reported during its scan then it would've removed nothing.

When you saw a non-zero hit count during the scan and then zero at the
end, did you look at "View detailed results of scan" to see what it
removed? With a non-zero hit list during the scan, I would expect the
log to show what got removed if the list was zero after the scan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3znzDDJzA

However, I wouldn't rely on MRT to get you clean. It may have removed a
couple ticks but there could still be some more ticks and lice that it
did not detect or doesn't even look for. It was NEVER intended to be a
robust anti-virus solution. That you had some rather very obvious and
usually old malware means you now need to use some more thorough to scan
your computer for pests.

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NT, Ant says...

Why does during full scans, there are infections. After it is done
scanning for a few hours, it shows no infections. I am confused!

Thank you in advance.

Sounds normal to me. It's done it's job and removed infections.

I'd follow that up with two five minute tools from:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/products/#for-technicians

Download and run AdwCleaner and Junkware Removal Tool.

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