Malicious software removal tool & Live One Care

[Guest Thomas]

I attended today's mo. security briefing and could not get an answer to this:

are any or all of the malicious software scanned for in the newest version

of MSRT (2.8) ALSO covered if one is running Live One Care? What about

Windows Defender; are we to assume that Win Def. is supplanted by the

functions of Live One Care?

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Thomas Peter v B

[Guest David H. Lipman]

From: "Thomas" <Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com>

 

| I attended today's mo. security briefing and could not get an answer to this:

| are any or all of the malicious software scanned for in the newest version

| of MSRT (2.8) ALSO covered if one is running Live One Care? What about

| Windows Defender; are we to assume that Win Def. is supplanted by the

| functions of Live One Care?

| --

| Thomas Peter v B

 

Windows Defender targets non-viral malware mostly of the adware/spyware types.

 

The MRT targets a subset of what OneCare targets which is geared towards true viruses,

trojans and RootKits.

 

There may be some traget overlap between Windows Defender and OneCare.

 

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Dave

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

MSRT, OneCare, Defender, and Forefront all use a similar database. The MSRT

only detects items in its own, limited database:

 

Families Cleaned by the Malicious Software Removal Tool:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwarer...e/families.mspx

 

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool helps remove specific,

prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Windows Vista,

Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, or Windows 2000:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890830

 

 

OneCare includes Defender "functionality." If Defender is installed,

OneCare will disable it when it's installed.

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

 

Thomas wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> I attended today's mo. security briefing and could not get an answer to

> this: are any or all of the malicious software scanned for in the newest

> version of MSRT (2.8) ALSO covered if one is running Live One Care? What

> about Windows Defender; are we to assume that Win Def. is supplanted by

> the

> functions of Live One Care? </span>