[NEWS] F-Secure Exploit Shield Technology Preview (ESTP)

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About F-Secure Exploit Shield

F-Secure Exploit Shield is an application that protects users from web-based malicious exploits and stops malware at the first point of infection. All malicious, exploit-hosting URLs it detects are automatically reported back to F-Secure's Real-time Protection Network, which helps our Security Labs discover new exploits on the Internet and react to protect all our existing customers.

Supported Platforms

- Windows XP SP0, SP1, SP2 and SP3 (32-bit)
- Windows Vista SP0, SP1 and SP2 (32-bit)
- Windows 7 (32-bit)

Supported Browsers

- Internet Explorer (32-bit) 6.0 and later
- Mozilla Firefox 2.x and 3.x

F-Secure Exploit Shield Features

- Zero Day Protection: Protects unpatched machines even before patches are available from the software vendor.
- Patch-equivalent Protection: One 'shield' update per vulnerability stops all exploits targeting it.
- Proactive Measures: Heuristic detection techniques block exploits even for unknown vulnerabilities.
- Protects against both malicious websites and good websites that have been hacked.
- Shields for seven vulnerabilities (listed in the GUI) and proactive measures. More shields will be added through automatic updates. There is also a very good generic protection against exploits that do not have specific shields yet.
- Automatically sends detected malicious URLs from users to F-Secure.

What's new in this release

- Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit) and Windows 7 (32-bit) support
- Internet Explorer 8 support
- Firefox support (up to Firefox 3.5)
- More vulnerability coverage
- Enhanced block page design
- Exploit Shield engine improvements

http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/supp...eld/index.html