• Does the Malicious Software Removal Tool install itself automatically?

    Posted on April 19, 2016 at 15:46 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    It looks like I’m wrong – and I’d appreciate your comments and observations. This from CH:

    I see that you post a lot of replies saying that MSRT installs automatically regardless of the settings and the same about the Defender/MSE definitions.

    While this may be the case about the definitions in most instances, although I am not so convinced that they still install with the service disabled and we agree that this is not the best practice, in the case of MSRT I think that this one comes as a regular update, even if it is just a scanner.

    I still have to test if it installs automatically which I think it doesn’t (on Windows 7), but certainly comes as a separate patch which needs to be checked in the client before installing.

    This discussion is in the context of any setting other than Automatically install updates obviously.

    Although what I mentioned is primarily about Windows 7, I think the same applies to Windows 10 if the Group Policy is set to something else than the default Automatic.

    Setting the Wireless connection to metered may behave differently though and maybe this is what makes you think that MSRT installs automatically.

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