Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Initial release | 13 January 2005; 14 years ago |
Stable release | |
Operating system | Windows 7 and later |
Size | 131.0 MB |
Available in | English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish |
Type | On-demand scanner |
License | Freeware |
Website | www.microsoft.com/en-us/safety/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx |
Microsoft delivered the first version of the MSRT on January 13, 2005 in 24 languages to users of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 computers.
Q3. How can I disable the infection-reporting component of the tool so that the report is not sent back to Microsoft? A3. An administrator can choose to disable the infection-reporting component of the tool by adding the following registry key value to computers [~snip~]