Microsoft to discontinue EMET in July 2018

Microsoft announced yesterday that it has extended the support end data of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit from January 2017 to July 2018.
Microsoft introduced EMET in 2009 as a standalone security program for Windows designed to block certain exploits from being executed successfully.
EMET was designed as a last line of defense against attacks carried out against Windows devices.
We reviewed Microsoft EMET back in 2012 for the first time, and published news updates whenever Microsoft released a new version of EMET that introduced new features. We have published a collection of EMET tips, and covered the latest release, EMET 5.5 as well here on Ghacks.
It appears that EMET 5.5 will be the last version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit that Microsoft will release.
EMET End of Support
EMET was born out of necessity according to Microsoft. Major operating system updates shipped every three or four years back then, and that was simply to long of a time to react quickly to new threats (read integrate defensive measures natively).
EMET provided users and companies with options to protect Windows machines from some of these attack forms.
And thus, EMET was born as a stop-gap solution to deliver tactical mitigations against certain zero-day software vulnerabilities.
While EMET was useful in this regard, and for security innovations that Microsoft integrated into its operating systems directly, it had serious limitations as well according to Microsoft.
One being that EMET was not integrated in Windows which meant that its features were not "developed as robust security solutions". While EMET blocked techniques in the past, methods to bypass EMET entirely or partially were discovered eventually.
EMET had a serious impact on a system's performance and reliability on top of that due to its hooks into low-level areas of the operating system.
Windows 10 enters the picture
Microsoft integrated all mitigation features of EMET in Windows 10 directly according to Jeffrey Sutherland, the company's lead program manager for operating system security.
The company did add "many new mitigations" on top of that to Windows 10 that EMET does not support.
And, of course, Windows 10 includes all of the mitigation features that EMET administrators have come to rely on such as DEP, ASLR, and Control Flow Guard (CFG) along with many new mitigations to prevent bypasses in UAC and exploits targeting the browser.
Considering that Microsoft's sole focus is on Windows 10, it comes as no surprise that the decision was made to end support for EMET. The main reason why the end of support has been extended by another 18 months is that Microsoft's enterprise customers who deployed EMET on previous versions of Windows demanded more time to cope with the new situation.
While EMET won't receive any new updates anymore, it is not the only anti-exploit software available for Windows. This is especially important for Windows machines who are not updated to Windows 10. Windows 7 and 8 are supported until 2020 and 2023 respectively for instance. Since Windows 10 is the only Microsoft operating system the mitigations were integrated in, other means of protection may need to be found for previous versions of Windows.
There is Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit and HitmanPro.Alert for instance that support previous versions of Windows and will continue to do so long after Microsoft ends support for EMET.
Now You: Do you run anti-exploit software on your Windows machine?


What mental age of reader are you targeting with the first sentence? 10?
Why not write an article on how to *avoid* upgrading from W10 to W11. Analogous to those like me who avoided upgrading from 7 to 10 for as long as possible.
If your paymaster Microsoft permits it, of course.
5. Rufus
6. Ventoy
PS. I hate reading these “SEO optimized” articles.
I used Rufus to create an installer for a 6th gen intel i5 that had MBR. It upgraded using Setup. No issues except for Win 11 always prompting me to replace my local account. Still using Win 10 Pro on all my other PCs to avoid the bullying.
bit pointless to upgrade for the sake of upgrading as you never know when you’ll get locked out because ms might suddenly not provide updates to unsupported systems.
ps…. time travelling?
written. Jan 15, 2023
Updated • Jan 13, 2023
This happens when you schedule a post in WordPress and update it before setting the publication date.
Anyone willing to downgrade to this awful OS must like inflicting themselves with harm.
I have become convinced now that anybody who has no qualms with using Windows 11/10 must fit into one of the following brackets:
1) Too young to remember a time before W10 and W11 (doesn’t know better)
2) Wants to play the latest games on their PC above anything else (or deeply needs some software which already dropped W7 support)
3) Doesn’t know too much about how computers work, worried that they’d be absolutely lost and in trouble without the “”latest security””
4) Microsoft apologist that tries to justify that the latest “features” and “changes” are actually a good thing, that improve Windows
5) Uses their computer to do a bare minimum of like 3 different things, browse web, check emails, etc, so really doesn’t fuss
Obviously that doesn’t cover everyone, there’s also the category that:
6) Actually liked W7 more than 10, and held out as long as possible before switching, begrudgingly uses 10 now
Have I missed any group off this list?
You have missed in this group just about any professional user that uses business software like CAD programs or ERP Programs which are 99% of all professional users from this list.
Linux doesn’t help anyone who is not a linux kid and apple is just a fancy facebook machine.
Microsoft has removed KB5029351 update
only from windows update though
KB5029351 is still available from the ms update catalog site
1. This update is labaled as PREVIEW if it causes issues to unintelligent people, then they shouldn’t have allowed Preview updates ot install.
2. I have installed it in a 11 years old computer, and no problems at all.
3. Making a big drama over a bluescreen for an updated labeled as preview is ridiculous.
This is probably another BS internet drama where people ran programs and scripts that modified the registry until they broke Windows, just for removing stuff that they weren’t even using just for the sake of it.
Maybe people should stop playing geeks and actually either use Windows 10 or Windows 11, but don’t try to modify things just for the sake of it.
Sometimes removing or stopping things (like defender is a perfect example) only need intelligence, not scripts or 3rd party programs that might mess with windows.
Windows 11 was a pointless release, it was just created because some of the Windows team wanted to boost sales with some sort of new and improved Windows 10. Instead, Microsoft cannot support one version well let alone two.
Windows 11 is the worst ugly shame by Microsoft ever. They should release with every new W11 version a complete free version of Starallback inside just to make this sh** OS functionally again.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released a statement regarding the “unsupported processor” blue screen error for their boards using Intel 600/700 series chipsets & to avoid the KB5029351 Win11 update:
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/MSI-On–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–Error-Message-of-Windows-11-Update-KB5029351-Preview-142215
check out the following recent articles:
Neowin – Microsoft puts little blame on its Windows update after UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR BSOD bug:
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-puts-little-blame-on-its-windows-update-after-unsupported-processor-bsod-bug/
BleepingComputer – Microsoft blames ‘unsupported processor’ blue screens on OEM vendors:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-unsupported-processor-blue-screens-on-oem-vendors/
While there may be changes or updates to the Windows 10 Store for Business and Education in the future, it is premature to conclude that it will be discontinued based solely on rumors.
My advice, I left win 15 years ago. Now I’m a happy linux user (linuxmint) but there is Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu depending on your needs.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released new BIOS/firmware updates for their Intel 600 & 700 series motherboards to fix the “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” problem (Sept. 6):
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/Updated-BIOS-fixes-Error-Message–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–caused-BSOD-on-MSI-s-Intel-700-and-600-Series-Motherboards-142277
I try to disable the Diagnostics Tracking Service (Connected Devices Platform User Services) but it wont let me disable it, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tank you for your help