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April 11, 2010 at 06:54 AM
inet32

Safety of MSFT’s Malicious Software Removal Tool

by inet32 . Updated 16 years, 3 months ago

On TR Dojo they recently recommended a free Microsoft tool – the Malicious Software Removal Tool – it _automatically_ detects and remove malware.

I was thinking of using it but I was nervous about the automatic part – is there any danger that this tool (or others like it) might incorrectly identify something as malware and delete it, thus damaging my system? Would manually setting a Restore point before running it allow me to recover from that?

Thanks in advance!

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