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Powerful Free Microsoft Security Tool EMET Now in Version 4.1 Update [1]

Last updated by v.laurie [2] on 25. November 2020 - 12:04

EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) is a powerful free security tool from Microsoft. EMET hardens your system against various exploit techniques by making programs run in a restricted mode and has been the subject of previous tips [3]. The current version 4.1 has just been updated today to version 4.1 Update.

The Microsoft description is here [4] and the download page is here [5]. The setup MSI file is 8.2 MB. A 1.8 MB PDF user’s guide is also available at this link. According to Microsoft, EMET supports Windows XP Service Pack 3 on up, including Windows 8.1. However, please note the following requirements from Microsoft:

Please remember that EMET 4.1 Update 1 requires .NET Framework 4, and in order to protect Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 you need to install KB2790907 – a mandatory AppCompat update that has been released on March 12th, 2013 or any other AppCompat update for Windows 8 after that.

This update to EMET is said [6] to protect against the still unpatched Internet Explorer zero-day exploits that were recently reported. Here is the latest Microsoft advisory [7] about those IE problems. 

An extensive tutorial on how to use EMET has been written by fellow Gizmo editor Dedoimedo and is at this link [8]. The tutorial is for version 4.0 but I assume it is still applicable. 

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