Re: How to run "Malicious Software Removal Tool" ?

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_cable0ne.n3t)
Date: 07/20/05


Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:18:27 -0600

Rob Stow wrote:
> I just have downloaded and installed this thing and now I can't find the
> damned thing so I can run it.
>
> It did not add any entries anywhere in my start menu and there are no
> new folders anywhere on my C: drive. Amazingly enough there was not
> even one of the $NTUninstall folders created for this tool.

        The tool is updated the second Tuesday of each month, appears as a
"Critical Update" on the Windows Update site, and runs only when
"downloaded." Nothing is installed; there's nothing to run at a later
date; there's nothing to ever uninstall.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;890830

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