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 it's not a solution that will protect you from any kind of malicious code running on the Internet, it does not use many resources on your system, and at the same time adds another level of protection to Windows computers.
Microsoft has just released EMET 5.2, a new version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit that retrofits the previous version 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 facilities benefit from Control Flow Guard, a new feature του Visual Studio 2015, που "βοηθά στον εντοπισμό και σταματάει τις προσπάθειες του πειρατικού κώδικα". To Control Flow Guard (φρουρός ελέγχου ροής) υποστηρίζεται μόνο από τα Windows 8.1 και πάνω, συμπεριλαμβανομένων και των Windows 10, κάτι το οποίο σημαίνει ότι ωφελεί μόνο τα συστήματα που τρέχουν αυτά τα δύο λειτουργικά συστήματα.
Η δεύτερη αλλαγή βελτιώνει την μείωση του Attack Surface Reduction, "σταματώντας τις προσπάθειες εκτέλεσης του VBScript extension" όταν αυτό φορτώνεται στο Internet Zone του Internet Explorer. Σύμφωνα με τη Microsoft, αυτό προστατεύει από μία τεχνική εκμετάλλευσης γνωστή ως VBScript God Mode (VBScript Λειτουργία του Θεού).
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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