microsoft safety scanner log file location

Subsequent scans with this tool turned up clean so there's confidence that between the second clean scan, plus clean Mc-CrappyĪnd Malwarebytes scans that it is in fact removed. Not looking for suggestions on other tools outside of Microsoft Safety Scanner or requests to describe my situation and why I used it. Says it removed the threat, but from a filesystem perspective what exactly was removed? There's absolutely no information in these logs telling me what changes were actually made by the Safety Scanner. Microsoft Safety Scanner Finished On Tue Aug 23 14:31:26 2016

For more information about the Safety Scanner, see the support article on how to troubleshoot problems using Safety Scanner. To remove this tool, delete the executable file (msert.exe by default). Start 'remove' for process://pid:72020,ProcessStart:131164393356509360įound TrojanDownloader:Win32/Zdowbot.A and Removed! For detailed detection results, view the log at SYSTEMROOTdebugmsert.log. Threat detected: TrojanDownloader:Win32/Zdowbot.A The only thing given that's relative to the threat detected isĪ PID number, but if the system is then turned off and/or or has the threat removed then you won't be able to find out what process the PID belonged to or anything else to help identify it for documentation and future purposes.

The current version of Microsoft Safety Scanner v1.0 (build 1.227.458.0) logging provides no details that can help in determining what was found and the location of the threat on the system. Need to know what Microsoft Safety Scanner is removing - logs not verbose enough

Microsoft safety scanner log file location