re: Malicious Software Removal Tool

Michael Kleef [AppSense] — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:13:10 GMT

I did a blogcast on it John :)

http://blogs.technet.com/mkleef/archive/2005/04/20/403915.aspx

Shouldn't be a "critical" update

Robert Aitchison — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:46:31 GMT

I think Microsoft offering the MSRT is undoubtedly a good thing but I can't disagree strongly enough with it being a critical update that gets pushed down with automatic updates.

It doesn't fix any flaw or bug in Windows, it's just a utility that cleans up bad prorgams. I've actually turned off automatic updates on my personal PCs bnecause I don't want this utility (that I don't need) downloaded each and every month.

Of course this has increased the effort involved in keeping my PCs up to date with legitimate patches and updates. I'm actually considering deploying a WSUS server on my home network just so I can decline the MSRT and still automatically get the real critical updates.