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4 bytes removed, 03:30, 10 December 2014
Emphasized that the EMET rules in this package don't actually do anything useful. For EMET to provide protection, the browser process must be protected.
== Using Microsoft EMET ==
If you use [[Microsoft EMET]] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29851 as additional layer of protection, '''you need to protect Internet Explorer and Firefox in order to protect the Flash plugin. It does not appear to be is neither necessary or nor sufficient to add EMET rules to protect executables in %systemroot%\system32\macromed\Flash because [http://www.rationallyparanoid.com/articles/microsoft-emet-2.html the only executables in that directory are uninstallers]. ''' The Flash plugin runs as part of the Firefox plugin-container or the Internet Explorer process.
If you want to protect those files anyway, it's bit of a hassle to add new player versions to EMET configuration because EMET does not accept wildcards in executable filenames. Automate the process with this script:
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