Windows 10: Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

It was working months ago now I tried to use it and it says it's blocked by system admin. WTF!

How do I either get it working again or just remove the darn thing, thanks

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Malicious Software Removal Tool

What is Malicious Software Removal Tool? Is that like the another anti-viruses?

If it like Avira e.g., how to disable it? Because i don't want it to scan my drives.

 

Malicious Software Removal Tool

What does this have to do with your initial question?

 

Hello, *Smile

You might see if installing the new Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) 5.49 released June 13, 2017 may help.

MSRT June 2017: Removing sneaky Xiazai - Windows 10 Forums

Download Malicious Software Removal Tool from Official Microsoft Download Center

 

I click on it and it wouldn't even open. Ran a sfc scan showed up nothing, did a ransomware scan nothing came up.

 

Software restriction policies are stored in the registry keys below. You might check to see if it may be listed in either. If so, delete it and restart the PC to apply.

*Arrow How Software Restriction Policies Work: Group Policy

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Safer

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

 

There isn't nothing listed under those

 

If you know when this may have started, you could try doing a system restore using a restore point dated before this happened.

 

Run this as admin in CMD:
Code: reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun" /f[/quote]

 

[/quote] C:\WINDOWS\system32>reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun" /fERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.

 

What anti-malware scanners have you tried? Try some of those.

Emergency Kit: Free Portable Malware Scan and Removal

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool Download

Zemana AntiMalware Portable Download

 

I ran ransomware defender. Trying some of these now

 

You might want to try running RKill to stop any malicious processes that may be blocking anti-malware programs.

Do NOT reboot after running RKill, proceed directly to running MSRT and any scanners you wish to use. Once RKill has been run, R Click on the stand-alone version of MSRT & select "Run as administrator" to see if this will help it to run.

RKill Download

If the registry keys are indeed missing & you cannot access a restore point from earlier, you may wish to consider looking at this tutorial. Options also included are Refresh.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

 

Nope that didn't work either. I just won't mess with it I think I have it disabled from now on. Thanks for everyone's help

 

Hi debgram.
I've one item named "ItemData" under key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\safer\codeidentifiers\0\Paths\{f9e93b39-49d1-4179-9848-a5a2896955ea}

which containts as value %systemroot%\system32\mrt.exe

check this out... I wonder if deleting the whole {f9e93b39-49d1-4179-9848-a5a2896955ea} would solve the issue, I'm not sure.
of course, create a restore point or image backup before proceding.