I use firefox mainly. Chrome on the laptop at home (because wifey uses firefox and the machine is dog slow with multiple accounts).
I was just finding that Chrome was buggy on linux, I hate that I cannot set it up to run in Incognito mode by default, and I was pretty sure that there was some bug that was causing my iMac to randomly reboot.
Firefox is rock solid on all platforms. I’ll live with the small percentage of increased security risk.
Basically this helps mitigate exploits getting code execution even when anti virus doesn’t detect whatever payload it might try and execute or whatever application doesn’t have the patch fixing some 0day
I usually just explain that there are 0day bugs and exploits in the wild that can compromise systems and often times the bugs are taken advantage of on the internet before there is ever a patch.
EMET helps stop these threats before the vendors can release a patch
Definitely pitching this as a mitigation tool and to be added to standard images. Might help some of the risk with running apps that require out-of-date runtimes.
Deployed to two machines so far and both claim the the EMET client isn’t running when you open the GUI. I have the .Net framework 4 as a prerequisite before EMET gets installed. Not sure what the problem is.
So I have 2 machines at my home office that just ran out of anti-virus. What should I get for them? One is my laptop and the other is a tower that is in getting a new power supply, fan for the hard drive and a few other things. I was using AVG trial that I had and I refuse to use McAfee ever again. Anybody have a good deal to share at the moment?
The issue comes down to this all of anti virus vendors are about the same unless you pay for some crazy high end corporate antivirus which is marginally better.
It’s extremely easy to get around anti virus so its only protecting you from shitty hackers/or old stuff