Microsoft Extends EMET End of Life Date (itnews.com.au)

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft will continue to support and provide security patches for its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit security software for Windows until July 31 2018, after taking customer feedback into account. EMET is a security utility software popular with enterprise customers running supported versions of Windows. It uses mitigation techniques to block attackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in software. The company's lead program manager for operating system security, Jeffrey Sutherland, said while EMET 5.5x will continue to be supported for another 18 months after the original end of life date of January next year, Microsoft recommended customers migrate to Windows 10 for improved security.

Comments

Let me get this straight.

[techno-vampire]

EMET doesn't block malware from exploiting vulnerabilities, it tries to prevent malware from doing any damage after it gets through. If so, that's not at all unreasonable. You can't ever block all possible holes; at best, you can block the ones you know about, but you can add an extra layer of protection to the programs and files that malware targets. If so, that even gives you a little bit of protection against zero day exploits, because it doesn't do crackers any good to get in if they can't steal or corrupt your data.

Windows 7

[Anonymous Coward]

How about listening to users and extending Windows 7 support even longer, and perhaps un-crippling the Windows Update service on that platform?

Windows 7 gained more new users than Windows 10 in last two months