Windows 10: KB890830 Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 5.48 - May 2017

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 5.48 update available for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 via Windows Update.

You can also manually download at Microsoft Update Catalog.

See also: Malicious Software Removal Tool in Windows Windows 10 Security System Tutorials

Source: Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt attacks MSRC











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Task bar intermittently pops under open window instead of on top.

Hello there - the answers to the questions are as follows:

-Windows 10 Home

-Version 1703

-OS Build 15063.296

-No changes

-Problem started a few weeks ago

-Updates history

Quality updates (1)

2017-05 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1703 for

x64-based systems (KB4020821) - Successfully installed on 20/05/2017



Other Updates (3)



Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server

2012, 2012 R2, 2016 x64 Edition - May 2017 (KB890830) - Successfully installed 24/05/2017


Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server

2012, 2012 R2, 2016 x64 Edition - May 2017 (KB890830) - Failed to install 24/05/2017

Feature update to Windows 10, version 1703 - successfully installed on 19/05/2017

 

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool May 2017

After over six hours scanning, during which time the app said 11 files were infected, the end result was a message that read no malicious files found.

Explain to me how that happens.

Is it a waste of time to run that tool?

 

Restart was not required.

 

Bonjour, I am a bit confused

Is this tool in addition to Windows Defender ?
Should we run it manually or is it launched periodically in the background

 

Interestingly I got it successfully installed on 10th May, then again this morning (23rd) - same KB. Both through WU.

 

Hi D4ni3l,

It is not a tool like protection software, it scans and removes malware but nothing more.

These are the different key ways from which the tool differs in comparison with protection software
From Malicious Software Removal Tool in Windows Windows 10 Security System Tutorials

 

Reference back to this post for a little more info.

Malicious Software Removal Tool Solved - Windows 10 Forums

TC

 

I just got this but it was not downloaded by windows update but in the background by Windows Update Delivery Optimization! I think this feature is disabled and I'm pretty sure it was Delivery Optimization cause I noticed my crappy internet was too slow even for it's standards *Smile

I could see in task manager Delivery Optimization eating all my internet and downloading something but refreshing windows update like a madman would give me nothing to download. I run here and see this update but by now Delivery Optimization is not using anything related to internet so I checked for recently installed updates on the updates history and KB890830 is there with today date!

Any idea why this stealth installation? Should I worry about it?

 

should we be getting a patch tuesday style update today?

 

Not that anybody is aware of, yet. But, MS is predictably unpredictable.

 

Along with a Window Defenders update there is also KB3150513 coming down on my RTM v1607 version.

KB3150513 Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 - May 23, 2017 - Windows 10 Forums

 

That's only for those still on AU version. Nothing to do, to my knowledge, with MRT or Defender. Like Shawn said, probably adding to the list of hardware ok for CU, OR taking some off.

 

I also got both an MSRT update a bit ago for all 3 editions.

 

Think most everybody (on 10) got it, Berton, including Insider. Kind of an MS shotgun spray across the whole platform.