Problem: You think your PC has the flu. It's suddenly sluggish, and unknown toolbars and pop-ups have started appearing everywhere. Microsoft Safety Scanner to the ...

Tucked inside Windows is a handy malware-removal tool that keeps working in the background and proves surprisingly useful ...

MRT.exe stands for Malicious Software Removal Tool. It’s a free Microsoft tool designed to scan for and remove malware from Windows computers. It’s not a replacement for a fully-fledged antivirus ...

Think that your current antivirus scanner might have let something slip into your digital fortress? Microsoft has a standalone security scanner that you can use to give your system the once over. The ...

Virus removal tools can be standalone one-time scanners or built into full antivirus software. They scan your system for malicious files and remove them. Standalone tools are great as a second opinion ...

Before you download, open, or share files from the internet, you need to be sure they’re safe. And how do you do that? I simply use a file scanner to check for known threats like malware, viruses, and ...

Microsoft has published a Knowledge Base article that lists down recommendations to improve performance in Windows in an Enterprise environment when running antivirus scanners. Microsoft recommends ...

Microsoft's OneCare antivirus scanner hasn't been having the best of months. Not only will the software chuck your entire inbox under certain circumstances, but it also finished dead last in security ...