The location of the file should be written below them (in the search results).
Make sure you don’t delete the file at C:\Windows\system32. Repeat this step for all the mrt.exe files (if you have more) except for the one at C:\Windows\system32. But if you see more, right-click the file and select Open file location. Ideally, there should only be one mrt.exe in the search results. Wait for the Windows to search for the file. Here are the steps for locating and deleting the malicious mrt.exe files The first thing that you need to do is to delete the mrt.exe files that aren’t at C:\Windows\system32 location Any mrt.exe that is found anywhere else will be a virus or malware pretending to be the real mrt.exe. The official Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool can be found at the location C:\Windows\system32. Since mrt.exe isn’t supposed to run all the time or at least every day, there might be a virus pretending to be mrt.exe in the Task Manager. However, if you see mrt.exe running continuously for days then that is a red flag. So, as long as it doesn’t always run then you don’t really have to worry. It is normal for mrt.exe to consume a lot of resources. So, if you see mrt.exe using high CPU just once or every once in a while then you probably don’t have to worry. In fact, it won’t run for the whole month or until the next time it is updated. This tool is designed to run whenever it is updated but it shouldn’t run after that. 
The Malicious Software Removal Tool is updated via the Windows Update every month (in the Tuesday update of every month). So, if you see the mrt.exe running in the Task Manager then it doesn’t always mean that it is a virus. Mrt.exe (Malicious Software Removal Tool) is, in fact, a Windows own removal tool. There are a couple of things that can cause this high CPU usage from the mrt.exe process. When this program runs, it will spike CPU and Memory Usage due to the resources being consumed by it which it needs to perform its functions. MRT.exe is short for Malicious Removal Tool, which is a legitimate Windows program.
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