Microsoft releases the MSRT on a monthly cadence as part of Windows Update or as a standalone tool. My AV also finds nothing on a manual scan, but occasionally will remove something during an automatic scan.The Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) helps remove malicious software from computers that are running any of the following operating systems:

Also MSERT does NOT report any infected files during the scan.

It would be a bit different if it even said it could not remove the infection, but to show the infections all the way to the end of the scan, then end and report nothingįound, I'm thinking MSRT is defective, or whatever it is, is making it report nothing found, instead of removing it, and is spreading. This was first encountered, and getting more infections reported, yet not being addressed. It takes around 10 hours to scan this machine, reports infections during the scan, then completes saying nothing found, so what is the deal? Looks like the scanner is not doing it's job. Only the start time, and completion with error code 0. Now the MSRT scan reports 4 files infected during the scan instead of 1, and shows 4 files infected right to completion, then completes reporting nothing found. Nothing I have run has found the issue, but it apears to be connected to Windows Explorer, as when I open it, the machine tries to connect to the false MAC. It still has not caught the initial problem. That machine is downloading trojans, which my AV catches, but It is fake, and is only one character different than my own router's MAC address. By non existent, I mean it is NOT listed in the MAC data base. Trying to connect to a non existent MAC address. The machine that the message appeared on is still having issues, including I have since done a new install on another machine, and never saw the message.

Also, it happened when I had NOT run MSRT. I have run this MANY, MANY times, and never saw that before. The message 'installing update 64 of 64 regedit Hkey Local_machine/curr,' means the update of Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool, the file name and directory will be shown during the scann period if it is a virus, you can find the file and

Microsoft safety scanner log location