Re: Malicious Software Removal Tool - signs that it was running

It downloads, it runs, it goes away if nothing's found.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Richard Fangnail wrote:
I just did autoupdate and included the removal tool for the first
time. Did it run while loading all the other updates? It's supposed
to, but I expected it to take longer, since it scans the whole disk,
doesn't it? But the whole update took, as usual, only 5-10 minutes.
.

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