F-Secure Exploit Shield Technology Preview (ESTP)

Latest version (0.70 build 19) released on June 29, 2009.

We welcome you to participate in the F-Secure Exploit Shield Technology Preview program.

About F-Secure Exploit Shield

F-Secure Exploit Shield is an application that protects users from web-based malicious exploits and stops malware at the first point of infection. All malicious, exploit-hosting URLs it detects are automatically reported back to F-Secure's Real-time Protection Network, which helps our Security Labs discover new exploits on the Internet and react to protect all our existing customers.

Supported Platforms

- Windows XP SP0, SP1, SP2 and SP3 (32-bit)
- Windows Vista SP0, SP1 and SP2 (32-bit)
- Windows 7 (32-bit)

Supported Browsers

- Internet Explorer (32-bit) 6.0 and later
- Mozilla Firefox 2.x and 3.x

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.
- Shields for seven vulnerabilities (listed in the GUI) and proactive measures. More shields will be added through automatic updates. There is also a very good generic protection against exploits that do not have specific shields yet.
- Automatically sends detected malicious URLs from users to F-Secure.

What's new in this release

- Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit) and Windows 7 (32-bit) support
- Internet Explorer 8 support
- Firefox support (up to Firefox 3.5)
- More vulnerability coverage
- Enhanced block page design
- Exploit Shield engine improvements

Download

If you want to participate in the Exploit Shield beta program, select one of the following options:

- To download the stand-alone beta version of F-Secure Exploit Shield, click here.

- If you participate in the F-Secure Internet Security Technology Preview program, F-Secure Exploit Shield will be installed together with the ISTP program.

Installation Instructions

This standalone F-Secure Exploit Shield version will not install if F-Secure Internet Security or F-Secure Internet Security Technology Preview (ISTP) has been installed on the computer.

F-Secure ISTP already includes the Exploit Shield functionality. F-Secure ISTP also requires that the standalone version of Exploit Shield be uninstalled before installing F-Secure ISTP.

Known Issues and FAQ

Before starting to use the product, please get acquainted with the Known Issues and read the Frequently Asked Questions.

Feedback

Please report all F-Secure Exploit Shield related issues with the F-Secure Technology Preview Feedback form.

This time we are looking forward to feedback especially about the technology and the supported shields. The user interface will be renewed, no feedback about the current version is needed.