Security Institute Says Windows 7 Is More Secure than Windows 10 Thanks to EMET

[Exterminator]

Microsoft will pull the plug on its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (also known as EMET ( on July 31, 2018 (an extension to the original end-of-support date set for January 27, 2017), but this isn’t at all a good move, a security institute says.

The CERT group at Carnegie Mellon University explains that EMET helped make Windows 7 very secure and in some cases, even more secure than Windows 10, so pulling it means that users who are not running the latest operating system would be left vulnerable.

While they admit that Windows 10 indeed integrates some of the features available in EMET, a Windows 7 system that has the toolkit installed can prove to be more secure because with a built-in solution, it all comes down to apps to integrate these security features.

“Microsoft strongly implies that if you are running Windows 10, there is no need for EMET anymore. This implication is not true. The reason it's not true is that Windows 10 does not provide the application-specific mitigations that EMET does,” security researchers explain.

Windows 10 and EMET, the best possible combo
A graph comparing the security features of Windows 7 with EMET and Windows 10 with the built-in technologies show that the 2009 operating system is actually more secure, coming with features that are not available on its 2015 successor.

The best combo is Windows 10 and EMET, which according to these experts, provides the best security that you can get right now on Windows.

“Microsoft strongly implies that if you are running Windows 10, there is no need for EMET anymore. This implication is not true. The reason it's not true is that Windows 10 does not provide the application-specific mitigations that EMET does. Windows 10 does not provide all of the mitigation features that EMET administrators have come to rely on,” the reportshows.

Microsoft is yet to offer a statement on this, but the company is very unlikely to change the end-of-support date for EMET. Windows 7 support itself is coming to an end in January 2020, so Microsoft probably doesn’t see a reason to keep EMET alive for too long, especially because it’s working on implementing its full functionality in Windows 10.

 

[Solarlynx]

Thanks for sharing this info. Then like in my case Windows 7 with MBAE might be more secure than Windows 10.

 

[Janl1992l]

And how much are using emet? I know not even one that use it from my friends and family.

 

[Entreri]

I don't know anyone who uses either, maybe 1%-2% of Windows 7 users.

Windows 7 also lacks things like Powershell, which a lot of malware are going after.

 

[Solarquest]

If Win +Emet (that is a free program) offers a better protection, people without a better solution should use it since it's free and available. If they don't want to, it's their choice, as the consequences.
I think it's "nice" and it was needed that MSFT provided such a tool.

 

[tim one]

EMET prevents vulnerabilities in software through the use of mitigation technologies that an attacker must defeat to exploit these vulnerabilities.

This is not a guarantee that vulnerabilities will not be exploited, and it can be extremely difficult, but already Fire Eye has identified exploits around the code of Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight, so that they can bypass DEP.

 

[Dirk41]

I use emet on w10

Thank you for sharing . Days ago an article from MS ( I think ) said w10 provides all emet provides.

I won't uninstall emet so