The stable version of Malwarebytes ' Anti-Expoit software was released on Thursday, promising to defend computer systems against zero-day exploits.
After acquiring ZeroVulnerabilityLabs, led by Pedro Bustamante, Malwarebytes began leveraging the new technology under its umbrella.
The product is available in two versions, a free one and a paid one (Premium – $24.95 / 22.31 euros). The difference between them is the scope of protection provided, as Premium provides options for customizing defenses and provides exploit protection capabilities for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, Foxit Reader, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Also, the paid version also covers web browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera), browser add-ons and Java plug-ins (the only protections provided in the free version of Anti-Exploit).
To test the product's capabilities, Malwarebytes hired security researcher Kafeine. Using various exploits and exploit kits, the analyst concluded that:
“Malwarebytes Anti-exploit works against all widely used exploit kits. It also works with Java exploits, which Emet cannot do. This product sounds like a good additional layer of protection against unpatched (“0day”) exploits, although I have some doubts about its ability to stop exploits at the kernel level.”.
You can download MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit from here.
