Re: Alerting - Malicious software removal tool

I can only surmise, then, that the 3700 PCs you referred to in your other post are very well taken care of and not included in the 24 million computers for which the tool has had benefit. Good job.

Meanwhile, the customers I consult with are grateful for this tool. The CSOs and CTOs and security architects I work with around the world, who represent several million client computers, have commented that the MSRT is one of the most responsible things they've seen us do -- in addition to all the work we've done to improve the quality of Windows. Plus, much of what the MSRT removes are worms that exploit vulnerabilities in humans, not vulnerabilities in the software -- even a perfect operating system (which is impossible to build) can't protect itself from that.

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"Leythos" <spam999free@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.23989b0450ccb07298971e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <#13M1cKUJHA.6092@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, none <""richard\"@
(none)"> says...
If you are not recommending people to run this when they have an
infection, or do not utilize it yourself, you are not using an important
tool that is at your disposal.


I'm not suggesting that people NOT run it, I'm stating that in all this
time I've not seen it to be of any benefit in cleaning machines.

There are free tools that are MORE valuable and do a better job of
cleaning compromised machines that are not hidden from most users.

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