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antdude
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antdude

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How effective is security software at blocking exploits?

»betanews.com/2014/08/12/ ··· xploits/

"Much of the malware in circulation now focuses on using exploits in popular applications such as browsers and office packages in order to remotely execute code. Security suites and specialized anti-exploit tools are aimed at blocking these but how well do they work?

A new study by testing lab PCSL commissioned by Malwarebytes has set out to find the answer. It looks at the exploit mitigation capabilities of 12 different products: Avast Internet Security, AVG Internet Security, Bitdefender Internet Security, Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit from Microsoft, ESET Smart Security, HitmanPro.Alert3, Kaspersky Internet Security, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit Premium, McAfee Internet Security, Norton Internet Security, Panda Internet Security and Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security.

Each product was tested against 58 different exploit samples in a range of payload configurations..."

Interesting results.
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Jrb2

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For your info, there is a discussion about it at Wilders with posts from (among others) folks from Malwarebytes and Surfright (HitmanPro):
»www.wilderssecurity.com/ ··· .367084/

therube
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A range of different products were compared against each other, yet no description of the methodologies the different products use to go about blocking (or not, in many cases) the exploits.

> First there was 'Star Wars', and now the sequel 'Anti-Exploit' wars. Much ado about nothing.

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Malwarebytes pays for the study, malwarebytes wins the study.
Malwarebytes can't win it by 100% since it would seem biased so they win it by being number #1 in but still not 100% so it shows a shred of realism.
Sigh...btw Microsoft during their study found out that Internet Explorer is the most robust browser out there!