F-Secure Exploit Shield is an application that protects users from web-based malicious exploits and stops malware at the first point of infection.

It has both shields and generic heuristics that monitor for and block suspected malicious activity. It logs attack attempts; and will also report suspicious URLs to our Real-time Protection Network1. New shields are delivered via our automatic update channel servers.

All malicious, exploit-hosting URLs it detects are reported back to F-Secure's Real-time Protection Network, which helps our Security Labs discover new exploits on the Internet, and respond to protect all our existing customers.

F-Secure Exploit Shield features:
- Zero Day Protection: Protects unpatched machines even before patches are available from the software vendor.
- Patch-equivalent Protection: One 'shield' update per vulnerability stops all exploits targeting it.
- Proactive Measures: Heuristic detection techniques block exploits even for unknown vulnerabilities.
- Protects against both malicious websites and good websites that have been hacked.
- Automatically sends detected malicious URLs from users to F-Secure.

Supported platforms: Windows XP SP0, SP1, SP2 and SP3

Supported browsers: All versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and FrontMotion Firefox


Note: This is a very early Technology Preview, so there might still be intermittent problems with blocking certain exploits. The detection and blocking functionality will improve with newer builds.

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