Re: KB890830

From: AliceZ (AliceZ_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0800

Thank you so very much. I believe you answered one of my questions sometime
last year and that answer also was informative and easily understood.
Therefore, we presume, that every month we will see an updated Critical
download for this KB890830.
#1-Will it maintain the same number (KB890830)? Or will it have another
number but make some reference that it is associated with this "KB890830
and/or Malicious Software Removal Tool?
Thanks again for your kind and easy to follow answer.
Alice

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> AliceZ wrote:
>
> > Thank you. The KB890830 will not conflict with Norton AntiVirus or Norton
> > Firewall,
> > #1- but will it conflict with AdAware 1.05? Would anyone know?
>
> No, it will not.
>
>
> > #2- Also, what happens if KB890830 finds a "worm."
>
> It removes it.
>
>
> > #3- After we download from Critical Update page, what then? Will we be told
> > what to do, or will something be done automatically and then we get a report
> > that nothing/something was found?
>
> When using Windows Updates or Automatic Updates, you will not get any
> feedback whatsoever, it runs in quiet mode and then it just deletes
> itself.
>
> After it is finished, it writes the result to a log file.
>
> To see the log file, run the following command from Start/Run:
>
> notepad %windir%\Debug\Mrt.log
>
>
> > #4- Will an updated version of KB890830 be listed every month on the
> > Critical Update page?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>

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