The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) of Microsoft is a program aimed at blocking exploits before completing their purpose.
Without EMET, these attacks will be able to accomplish their purpose and thus will be considered successful, while with EMET you will have one last chance to block them.
Although it is EMET is not a solution that will protect you from every type of malicious code circulating on the internetnetwork, doesn't use a lot of resources on your system and at the same time adds another layer of protection to Windows PCs.
Microsoft has just released EMET 5.2, a new version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit that updates the previous version of 5.1.
Note that the company now offers two different versions of EMET. First, the 5.2 version, which is the latest, and then the 4.1 Update 1 version, which it will support until 9 June, 2015.
The Microsoft EMET 5.2 comes with three new features two of which are intended to enhance protection in all supported operating systems and the third only for operating systems running Windows 8 and above.
All EMET installations benefit from Control Flow Guard, a new feature of Visual Studio 2015 that "helps detect and stop pirate code attempts". Control Flow Guard is only supported by Windows 8.1 and above, including Windows 10, which means it only benefits the systems running these two operating systems.
The second change improves its reduction Attack Surface Reduction, “σταματώντας τις προσπάθειες εκτέλεσης του VBScript extension” όταν αυτό φορτώνεται στο Internet Zone του Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft, this protects against an exploit technique known as VBScript God Mode.
The third and last change affects Internet Explorer. EMET supports reports and notifications that have Enhanced Protected Mode enabled from the Internet Explorer desktop.
The program will automatically upgrade to the existing version of EMET if you have it, or install the software again if you have not preinstalled it.
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