Hands-on Project 1-4

Malware are malicious software that enters a computer without the owner's knowledge or consent. This is very harmful to the computer systems as malware are able to steal personal data like password or credit card number and spread the data to a third party without the user's acknowledgement.

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Homepage of Microsoft Security















Click on Microsoft Download Center

















Download Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Tool

Save the file and choose the desired location to save it

Run the file after finish downloading

Select 'Quick Scan'

No malicious software was found after the scan

















Details of the scan

















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Reflection

Nowadays, many different malwares can found on a lot of websites and infect our computer easily. Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is a very useful program as it runs in the background and automatically checks the computer for infections by specific malware and helps to remove any infection found. Hence reducing the hassle of having the users to remove the malware one-by-one.

Recently due to the hectic lives of the people, maintenance of computers are often neglected, as a result malware are allowed to infect their computers easily. Hence by downloading this program into their computer, it can automatically remove those malwares and keep their computer secured. This reduces the time spend on protecting their computer and allow them to use this extra time to do other things that they wants to do.