F-Secure Exploit Shield: Protection Against Web-Based Exploits for your Browser
http://support.f-secure.com/beta/estp/estp.shtml
This is not an antivirus program. This is not an antispyware program.
This is an application that helps prevent web-based exploits from gaining access to your system through your browser, from F-Secure, a world leader in internet security and malicious software detection.
From the F-Secure website:
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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
Supported browsers
- All versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and FrontMotion Firefox
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.
- Automatically sends detected malicious URLs from users to F-Secure.
Given the latest round of exploits for Internet Explorer, this program may add an additional layer of defense.
