It’s not, as the Safety Scanner Docs page attests. At first, I did a double-take to make sure it wasn’t a typo. Just yesterday, I learned about a similar but different tool named Microsoft Safety Scanner (MSERT.exe). It also should be noted that Microsoft Safety Scanner is not a replacement to a standard antivirus program that provides what this tool doesn’t have, the real-time on going protection.With each Patch Tuesday, MS releases a new version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT).

It’s also not convenient that when you need it the most but only found it’s expired. This new security scanning tool may come very handy but since it’s only good for 10 days it’s not suitable adding it to your toolbox. Simply choose one of them, and click on Next…

Customized scan, which scans the contents of a specified folder.

Full scan, which just like it says, scan your whole system.

Quick scan, which scans areas of the system most likely to contain malwares.

Microsoft Safety Scanner offers three type of scan for you to choose: Simply double click the executable msert.exe and you are good to go.

After that you will have to re-download the executable file if you want to use it again.īecause it only comes as one single executable file it makes people to use it super easily. It is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit edition but note that the scanner only valid for 10 days. Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that only comes as one simple executable file including scanning processor as well as all the virus signature files. Microsoft recently just released a free virus scanner, Microsoft Safety Scanner, as an addition tool to its wonderful Microsoft Security Essentials to help those computers that unfortunately got infected by the bad viruses.

Msert infected files