Microsoft Safety Scanner

The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software.

Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again.

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Yeh! Saw this yesterday. I tried to download a copy and run but always the download was corrupted.

 

68+ MB of download every 10days for just an on-demand scanner, I better would use SAS or MBAM

 

Its just an occasional cleaner like CureIt, Kaspersky AVP Tool, Normal Cleaner, Vipre Rescue and F-Secure Easy Clean.

 

Just downloaded, wasn't corrupt and worked fine.

It's also portable.

 

Thanks, this looks quite interesting.

 

good initiative by microsoft.

 

I also tried it again today after that post and this time it worked... May be some server problem yesterday... looks clean...!!! It looks as the big brother of MRT.exe. It would be better if Microsoft distributes this in place of MRT through MS Update...

 

Thank you for the update ...

Just wanted to know, is it based on MS Essential. I haven't found any body mentioning the same ..

 

Actually
Microsoft Re-brands “Windows Live One Care Safety Scanner” to “Microsoft Safety Scanner”
So it includes all the databases available to Microsoft SE.

 

All Microsoft security products (Forefront, Security Essentials) use the same Microsoft Antimalware Engine.

 

This looks like a nice no nonsense on demand scanner with no ads or running around in circles just to start a scan. How is the scanning speed? Better than cureit i hope...

 

Not a MSE user (so no experience with it),but this app zoomed through my system (quick-scan mode;XP sp3;40 Gb used on a 100 Gb partition) in less than 3 minutes.Tried it (found nothing),deleted it.
Nothing more,nothing less...

 

Better than CureIt and MSE....

 

WOW looks good! Thanks for the heads-up!

 

Is this program like the SAS OnlineScanner program, which nothing is installed onto the system, just temp files?

 

Hardly, the download is almost 70 MB.

 

It is much more like Dr. Web CureIt, Norman Malware Cleaner, F Secure Easy Clean. It doesn't allow to download updates like SAS portable scanner.

 

Despite all the MS hate and procrastination from 'experts', the HIPS in this rivals those of some very expensive 3rd party solutions, but it's non-semantic free(doesn't cost anything).

 

Safety Scanner contains total Antimalware database and MRT contains specific databases for wide spread malwares.

 

Yeah, MRT is quite limited:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/malware-families.aspx
Still if you tell it to do a full scan it takes ages(2-3 hours.)

 

Reviewed by Softpedia
http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Microsoft-Safety-Scanner-Review-195411.shtml

 

Yes.

No.

 

Nice to see it working.