Microsoft urges computer users to install security tool

[Wassercrats]

Microsoft urges computer users to install security tool. The security tool is the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit v3.0.

"Microsoft said customers should install the security software as an interim measure, buying it time to fix the bug and release a new, more secure version of Internet Explorer...It affects Internet Explorer versions 7, 8 and 9 on Windows XP, Vista and 7 operating systems."

Microsoft's "overview" is way too technical if the software is really appropriate for protecting consumer PCs.

"The policy for system wide mitigations can be seen and configured with EMET's graphical user interface. There is no need to locate up and decipher registry keys or run platform dependent utilities. With EMET you can adjust setting with a single consistent interface regardless of the underlying platform....The toolkit includes several pseudo mitigation technologies aimed at disrupting current exploit techniques."

I don't get a sense of how hard configuration is. Anyone know? I don't know why they can't make this part of a Windows update.

And didn't blockquote tags used to work on this forum?

[kitchin]

More info: http://www.securityweek.com/microsof...lorer-zero-day

[Wassercrats]

More info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...visory/2757760

Nothing about "Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit v3.0" in that advisory, though IE's search feature doesn't alway find the word you search for. I'm not installing the toolkit.