Tucked inside Windows is a handy malware-removal tool that keeps working in the background and proves surprisingly useful ...

Microsoft offers a number of free anti-malware tools. Windows 10 and 8.1 users have Windows Defender. Windows 7 users can chose between the full-featured Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) or the ...

Note: This mystery has been solved. See the July 15th update at the bottom. July 9th was patch Tuesday and I dutifully ran Windows Update on a few PCs. I thought perhaps that the Windows Malicious ...

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is a security tool developed and released by Microsoft for Windows PCs. It reverses any infection caused by viruses or malicious software on Windows PCs.

After lawsuits, public outcry and plenty of other hoopla, Microsoft declared Sony's rootkit malware and said that it would be removed with December's Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. Well, ...

Q: I use both the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool and Microsoft Windows Defender. What's the difference between them? Are they both necessary? A: The Malicious Software Removal Tool is a ...

Microsoft Corp. created the world's most popular operating system — one that's also heartily embraced by hackers and virus writers. And it begat the world's top Web browser, which makes it all too ...

Malicious Software Removal Tool (MRT.exe) from Microsoft comes built-in with Windows operating system. This is a free tool that doesn’t give real-time protection but automatically scans for and ...

I’m smart enough to engineer a trip to Honolulu a couple of times a year — but somehow, with only a couple of weeks to go till I get to paradise, I wind up in Chelmsford, Mass., where the temperature ...