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The tool is primarily intended for non-corporate users

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Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool

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Excellent! I've been looking for a tool to remove the Malicious Microsoft Windows operating system for ages

Microsoft have stated that the tools are not intended to replace the existing tools aimed at corporate users. I imagine the worry about falling foul of yet another monopoly or unfair practice suit will limit what they do.

A number of the companies offering commercial versions are also MS partners, so it is unlikely that they will want to rain on their parade. Well, not just yet anyway.

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MICROSOFT PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
MICROSOFT ANTI-SPYWARE BETA SOFTWARE
FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP, AND WINDOWS SERVER 2003
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· supplements,
· Internet-based services, and
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4. POTENTIALLY UNWANTED SOFTWARE. The software will search your computer for “spyware,” “adware” and other potentially unwanted software (“Potentially Unwanted Software”). If it finds Potentially Unwanted Software, the software will ask you if you want to ignore, disable (quarantine) or remove it. The software will only remove or disable Potentially Unwanted Software as you instruct it. Removing or disabling the Potentially Unwanted Software may cause other software on your computer to stop working, and it may cause you to breach a license to use other software on your computer, if the other software installed the Potentially Unwanted Software on your computer as a condition of your use of the other software. You should read the license agreements for other software before authorizing the removal of any Potentially Unwanted Software. By using this software, it is possible that you will also remove or disable software that is not Potentially Unwanted Software. You are solely responsible for selecting which Potentially Unwanted Software the software removes or disables.
5. FEEDBACK. If you give feedback about the software to Microsoft, you grant to Microsoft, without charge, the right to use, share and commercialize your feedback in any way and for any purpose. You also grant to third parties, without charge, any patent rights necessary for their products, technologies and services to use or interface with any specific parts of a Microsoft software and service that incorporate the feedback. You will not give feedback that is subject to a license that requires Microsoft to license its software or documentation to third parties because we include your feedback in them. These rights survive the termination of this agreement.
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· work around the technical limitations in the software;
· reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software or the Potentially Unwanted Software definitions that work with the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;
· use the Potentially Unwanted Software definitions separately from the software;
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· use the software to provide commercial software hosting services.
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Deployment of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool in an enterprise environment
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=891716

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My bad.. Howard - you are right.. It is a completely different product.

Kent

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