F-Secure launches Exploit Shield

New Delhi: F-Secure announced that its new Exploit Shield is available to download now for free and is the first Internet security provider to offer such a shield to protect users from web-based malicious exploits and drive-by downloads, and vulnerabilities such as Internet Explorer Vulnerability, which one of the most dangerous viruses to infect the computer.

F-Secure Exploit Shield enables consumers to get protection against 'zero-day' exploits for which a patch is not available. These are attacks against vulnerabilities that are unknown to vendors at the time of exploitation. Vulnerabilities in computer software open security holes that can allow exploitation. Patches, issued by the manufacturer of the application, fix this particular problem.

Furthermore, the Exploit Shield protects unpatched computers even before patches are available from the software vendor. All F-Secure customers will also benefit as Exploit Shield reports malicious websites to our real-time Protection Network. Armed with this website information, our Security Labs are alerted faster than ever to new exploits on the Internet and can react to protect all its existing customers.