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 ...
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 ...
When installed, this rogue pretends to be an update for Windows installed via Automatic Updates. It will then install itself as a single executable called AV.exe that uses very aggressive techniques ...
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 ...