EMET [enhanced mitigation experience toolkit]

I saw a TV show that recommended this program,
for security

any opinions, or is it unnecessary?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/jj653751


thanks
marc

 

no one has heard of this program?

marc

 

Yes, I've heard of it. The question would be, to what extent does
it overlap with newer OS designs. DEP has been around for a while.
ASLR less so. In the previous releases, the EMET web page was couched
in terminology that suggested EMET was still beta. That's why I gave
it a pass at the time.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/06/windows-security-101-emet-4-0/#more-20368

(.msi and PDF user manual)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273

I purposely don't load a lot of crap on this computer, in order
to reduce the "number of variables" when stuff breaks. As it is,
while I was typing this, my screen went black for two seconds.
That's Windows 8 for you. That's excitement enough for me.
(And when this machine runs WinXP, that *never* happens.)
Thanks, Microsoft.

If you're running AV software, there's likely to be some
overlapping of protection there. The AV products though, aren't
going to tell you what they're doing behind the scenes. The
AV software might term their solution, something like
heuristic detection.

Just because I have a bad attitude about security, doesn't
mean that others will share my views. By all means, test
it, and see how much it interferes with things. For me,
it's a cost/benefit thing - will it cost me anything ?
Will it annoy me ? Don't know. Will it interact with
any of fifty different AV softwares ? Don't know.

Paul