Microsoft 's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a program that aims to block exploits before they complete their purpose.
Without EMET, these attacks will succeed in completing their purpose and thus be considered successful, while with EMET you will have one last chance to block them.
Although EMET is not a solution that will protect you from every type of malicious code circulating on the internet, it does not use many resources on your system and at the same time adds another layer of protection to Windows computers.
Microsoft has just released EMET 5.2, a new version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit that updates the previous version 5.1.
It is noted that the company now offers two different versions of EMET. First, version 5.2, which is the latest, and then version 4.1 Update 1, which it will support until June 9, 2015.
Microsoft EMET 5.2 comes with three new features, two of which are intended to enhance protection across 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 in Visual Studio 2015 that “helps detect and stop code piracy attempts.” Control Flow Guard is only supported by Windows 8.1 and above, including Windows 10, which means it only benefits systems running those two operating systems.
The second change improves Attack Surface Reduction, “stopping attempts to execute a VBScript extension” when it loads in Internet Explorer’s Internet Zone. According to Microsoft, this protects against an exploit technique known as VBScript God Mode.
The third and final change affects Internet Explorer. EMET supports alerts and reporting with Enhanced Protected Mode enabled from the Internet Explorer desktop.
The program automatically upgrades to the existing version of EMET, if of course you have it, or reinstalls the software, if you did not have it pre-installed.
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