Windows® Virus Scan

Learn about the scanning function performed by Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Operating Systems.

Scan is the process of detecting the presence of installed malicious programs in your system. Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is able to detect, remove and prevent the malicious programs infections from your system. In order to run scanning using Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool you need to visit www.microsoft.com and download and install this tool. After installing it you need to select the option to perform scanning. After the scanning it would display the scanning report. Scan report contains all details about the infected malicious program. You need to use antivirus program to remove it from your system. Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is specially designed for Windows Operating System.

Given below are some problems that may arise while performing the system scan:

• Slow system performance
• Data loss
• Slow scanning

Slow system performance

While performing the system scan, if your system has many running application programs you may face slow system performance. By updating the RAM you could resolve this problem to an extent. Also, you could stop the application programs running through Task Manager. For this, you need to open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+ Shift + Esc button simultaneously. Then you need to select all other program except scanning and press the End Task button.

Data loss

After performing the system scanning it would display the scan report. Scan report contains the malware infected file and option to kill that malware program. If you choose that option malware removal will clean infected files from your system. Thereby, you may face data loss. To resolve this problem you need to choose Repair option. Repair option would allow saving the data and removing the malware program.

Slow scanning

You may face slow scanning issues while performing the whole system scanning. This is because the whole system scanning needs long time to complete if your system contains many files. To resolve this problem you need to remove all unwanted file and folder from your system. Upgrading the RAM also resolves this problem.

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