Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a

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security toolkit for

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, developed by

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. It provides a unified interface to enable and fine-tune Windows security features. It can be used as an extra layer of defense against malware attacks, after the

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and before

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. EMET is targeted mostly at

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s but the newest version is supported for any Windows user running

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and later, or

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and later, with

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installed. The final edition of Windows that supported EMET was version 1703 (Creator's Update). Microsoft then changed the coding in the Fall Creator's Update of Windows 10, so it no longer supported EMET. Older versions can be used on

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, but not all features are available. Version 4.1 was the last version to support Windows XP. Microsoft has announced that EMET will reach

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on July 31, 2018.The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit Knowledgebase Article
Microsoft.com. Retrieved 25 December 2016 The website for microsoft.com/emet now leads to the Bing Search Site. The successors to EMET are the ''ProcessMitigations Module''—aka ''Process Mitigation Management Tool''—and the ''Windows Defender Exploit Guard'' only available on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.

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