Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit

What's new in this version:

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.476
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.443
Fixed:
- Fixed slowdown issues with MS Excel application
- Fixed false positives with MS Office products
- Disabled protection for some default applications
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.430
- Fixed slowdown issues with MS Excel application
- Fixed false positives with MS Office products
- Disabled protection for some default applications
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.424
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.415
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.407
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.400
Protection:
- New protection technique to block exploits from abusing MS Office and scripting applications
- New technique to protect MS Office applications from loading points abuse attacks
- New technique to protect MS Office applications from batch command abuse attacks
- New granular protection against VBA7 process and VBE7 object abuse
- New protection for email clients against scripting applications abuse attacks
- New protection to protect MS Office applications from macro 4.0 abuse attacks

Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed slowdown issues with MS Excel application
- Disabled Java shield by default
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.345
Fixed:
- false positive detection issues in VBA7 protection
- performance issues with MS Office applications
- customer issue with eXtyles add-in

- Internal security improvements
- Internal product improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.316
Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed false positive detection issues in VBA7 protection
- Fixed performance issues with  Microsoft® Office applications
- Fixed customer issue with eXtyles add-in
- Internal security improvements
- Internal product improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.304
Fixed:
- Fixed false detections with Macro protection in Microsoft® Office applications
- Fixed a library un-injection bug during service restart and product upgrades
- Fixed customer issues with Microsoft Office applications
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.288
Fixed:
- Fixed false detections with Macro protection in Microsoft Office applications
- Fixed a library un-injection bug during service restart and product upgrades
- Fixed customer issues with Microsoft Office applications
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.283
Protection:
- Protection against new exploit attack vectors

Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed a bug in Chrome and Edge browser shields
- Fixed customer issues with Microsoft Office applications
- Fixed customer issues with Bank plugins
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.257
Protection:
- Protection against new exploit attack vectors

Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed a bug in Chrome and Edge browser shields
- Fixed customer issues with Microsoft Office applications
- Fixed customer issues with Bank plugins
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.254
Protection:
- Protection against new exploit attack vectors

Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed a bug in Chrome and Edge browser shields
- Fixed customer issues with Microsoft Office applications
- Fixed customer issues with Bank plugins
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.235
Protection:
- Protection against new exploit attack vectors

Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed a bug in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser shields
- Fixed customer issues with Microsoft Office applications
- Fixed customer issues with Bank plugins
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal product improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.186
Protection:
- New protection against penetration testing attacks
- New protection against malicious email attachments in outlook

Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed a conflict with Panda Security
- Fixed false positive detections of Vena Monitor addin in Office applications
- Fixed a bug with Chrome and Edge browser shields
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.164
Protection:
- Protection improvements for Chrome and Edge browsers
- Protection against new exploit attack techniques

Usability:
- Fixed false detection of Grammarly plugin during updates

Bug fixes:
- Fixed false positive web-based Java detections
- Fixed false positive detections and crashes with MS Office applications
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.146
Protection:
- Protection for the new Edge browser and MS ACCESS application
- Fixed false detection of Grammarly plugin and OfficeConnect plugin during updates
- Protection against new exploit attack techniques

Usability:
- Fixed false detection of Grammarly plugin and OfficeConnect plugin during updates

Stability/issues fixed:
- Bug fixes
- Fixed false positive detections with MS Office applications
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.127
Protection:
- Improved protection techniques for browsers and MS Office applications
- Improved exclusion capabilities

Usability:
- Updated shield list to include Chrome and Edge Browsers
- Improvements to reduce False Positives

Stability/issues fixed:
- Bug fixes
- Fixed false positives with wscript
- Fixed false positive detections with MS Office applications
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.125
Protection:
- Improved protection techniques for browsers and MS Office applications
- Improved exclusion capabilities

Usability:
- Updated shield list to include Chrome and Edge Browsers
- Improvements to reduce False Positives

Stability/issues fixed:
- Bug fixes
- Fixed false positives with wscript
- Fixed false positive detections with MS Office applications
- Improved Logging capabilities
- Internal Product Improvements


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.117
- Change log not available for this verison


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.13.1.98
- Change log not available for this verison


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.147
Performance/Protective Capability:
- New Updated Protection for Chrome and Edge Browsers

Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed False positives with Leawo Blu-ray Player
- Fixed False positives with ViewRight plugin
- Fixed alert notification issues


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.129
- Fixed False positives with VLC player upgrade
- Fixed crashes with Palemoon browser


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.123
- Removed protection for Chrome due to Google's new policy against code injection into Chrome
- Fixed crashes with Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Fixed scanner issues with Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Fixed False positives with Process Hollowing Protection


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.109
- Fixed False positives with Grammarly Add-in
- Fixed false positives with Edge browser
- Improvements in Exclusion capability
- Improvements in Detection Information and Telemetry
- Fixed page freeze issues with Browsers
- Fixed slowness issues with Adobe Acrobat Reader


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.100
- Fixed False positives with Grammarly Add-in
- Fixed false positives with Edge browser
- Improvements in Exclusion capability
- Improvements in Detection Information and Telemetry


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.100
- Fixed False positives with Microsoft Office due to Process Hollowing Protection
- Fixed False positives with Adobe Reader
- Fixed conflict with AOL Data Mask
- Improved protection
- Improvements in Exclusion capability
- Improvements in Telemetry


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.81
- Fixed false positives with Microsoft Office
- Improvements in Exclusion capability


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.12.1.68
- Protection against exploit-driven Process Hollowing attack
- Hypervisor Code Integrity (HVCI) Compliant
- Compatible with Windows Device Guard
- Fixed crashes in Firefox browser


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.11.1.48
- Fixed user interface notification issues on Windows XP
- Fixed ROP block with a Chinese Bank plugin


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.09.1.1334
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.09.1.1235
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.09.1.1232
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.08.1.2572
- Layer1 self-protection mechanisms for MBAE DLL
- Layer1 Stack Pivoting detection technique
- Layer3 Application Behavior protection
- Self-protection for MBAE IPC


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.08.1.2563
- Added Layer1 self-protection mechanisms for MBAE DLL
- Improved Layer1 Stack Pivoting detection technique
- Improved Layer3 Application Behavior protection
- Improved self-protection for MBAE IPC


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.08.1.1196
- Change lot not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.08.1.1189
- Improve fingerprinting detection
- Improve Layer1 stability
- Fix for Windows 10 injection bug
- Fix for Chrome 64bits protection
- Fix for BitDefender bug causing conflicts
- Fix false positive condition in Java shield
- Fix potential memory leak condition


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.08.1.1045
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.08.1.1044
New Features
- Added Layer0 Dynamic Anti-HeapSpraying mitigation
- Added Layer0 Anti-Exploit fingerprinting mitigation
- Added Layer0 finetuned VBScript mitigation for IE
- Added Layer1 ROP-RET gadget detection mitigation
- Added Layer3 Application Behavior rules
- Added protection for Microsoft Edge
- Added protection for LibreOffice
- Added failover upgrade mechanism
- Added auto-recovery for Anti-Exploit service

Fixes
- Fixed conflict with third-party products that use the same hooks
- Fixed conflict with Office family profile
- Fixed conflict with banking software plugin for browsers
- Fixed conflict with Citrix when opening IE
- Fixed conflict with components from Asus and Huawei
- Fixed conflict with Kaspersky 16
- Fixed conflict with Comodo
- Fixed conflict with Imprivata OneSign
- Fixed issue when custom shields were not kept after upgrade
- Fixed issue with exclusions sometimes not applied to PDF profile
- Fixed issue with Layer3 Application Behavior
- Fixed issue with missing balloon notifications
- Fixed issue with missing balloon notifications
- Fixed false positive with Adobe Acrobat
- Fixed false positive with certain .NET modules under IE
- Fixed PhantomPDF crash when converting to doc


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.07.1.1015
New Features:
- Added new Layer0 exploit mitigations for IE VB scripting
- Added new Layer1 exploit mitigations for ROP detection
- Added new Layer3 exploit mitigations for Powershell abuse
- Added telemetry from Firefox
- Added ability to edit custom shields
- Added ability to log protection events to UI
- Added ability to auto-upgrade corporate builds
- Added support for Windows 10
- Added blacklisting of pirated and fraudulent license keys

Improvements:
- Improved Java shield in corporate environments
- Improved exploit telemetry
- Removed duplicate default shields for portable browsers
- Removed "shielded applications" counter from UI

Fixes:
- Fixed issue when printing to Adobe PDF
- Fixed issue with Speedbit Download Accelerator
- Fixed issue with plugins from PowerDVD and GAS Tecnologia
- Fixed issue with nProtect GameGuard Anti-Cheat
- Fixed issue with certain exclusions not respected
- Fixed issue with Knowledge Coach Office Add-In
- Fixed issue with false positive from IE
- Fixed issue with Foxit Reader startup
- Fixed issue with Excel PowerQuery
- Fixed issue with Excel DEP Enforcement
- Fixed issue with IE VB scripting block
- Fixed issue with Chrome crashes
- Fixed issue with Arcom Masterworks


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.06.1.1019
New Features:
- Added new Layer3 mitigations for IE, Java and Office
- Added default protection for more popular browsers
- Added Chromium-based browser application family
- Added new alert window with exploit details
- Added protection traybar tooltip notification
- Added advanced configuration of mitigations per family
- Added configuration for general settings
- Added browse button when adding custom shields
- Added new mechanism to reduce known false positives
- Added anonymous submission of blocked exploits
- Added confirmation window for file-format exploit submissions
- Added Premium notifications in Free/Trial builds
- Added support for Windows 10

Improvements:
- Improved upgrade process to maintain existing custom shields
- Improved visibility in GUI of Management Console exclusions
- Improved error and crash reporting
- Improved missing GUI notification for guest user accounts
- Improved managed installation to avoid Start Menu folder creation
- Improved settings tab by removing the need for Apply button

Fixes:
- Fixed false positive with Word or Excel under certain conditions
- Fixed false positive with LoadLibrary exploit mitigation
- Fixed false positive with web-based Java applications
- Fixed bug with timestamp conversions
- Fixed bug which could cause protection to stop during startup
- Fixed bug whereby LUA could start/stop protection
- Fixed bug when trying to activate invalid license
- Fixed user interface bug in settings tab


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.05.1.1016
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.05.1.1015
- Change log not available for this version


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.05.1.1014
New Features:
- Engine (DLL) code re-write to improve stability and compatibility
- Added mitigations DEP Enformcement, Anti-HeapSpraying and BottomUp ASLR
- Added new Layer0 "Application Hardening" protections
- Added Layer1 new generic ROP protection mitigations
- Added Layer1 new StackPivoting 64bit protection mitigation
- Added Layer1 new StackExec 64bit protection mitigation
- Added Layer2 new caller mitigations for 64bits
- Added Layer3 new application behavior mitigations
- Added trial mode to allow for testing of Premium version
- Added Quarantine of blocked payloads from Layer3 detections
- Added filename details for default and custom shields
- Added graphic user interface bitmaps
- Added new "Protection stopped" traybar balloon
- Added new counter which counts apps instead of processes

Improvements:
- Improved IPC communication between Service and protection DLL
- Improved management of 64bit processes by keeping mbae64.exe running
- Improved "other" custom shield profile to reduce potential FPs
- Improved Foxit Reader default shield to shield the latest version
- Improved exploit threat telemetry and logging

Fixes:
- Fixed false positive when opening Word or Excel under certain conditions
- Fixed false positive when installing and running Silverlight for the first time
- Fixed injection driver to resolve conflicts with third-party applications
- Fixed multi-select and edit options in Shields and Exclusions tab
- Fixed traybar icon right-click bug under Windows 8.1
- Fixed UI closing when right-clicking on traybar icon
- Fixed bug when double-clicking the traybar icon with UI open
- Fixed issues with shielded apps counter with Chrome and Java
- Fixed bug when uninjecting under certain conditions
- Fixed remaining issues which caused Java FPs under certain conditions
- Fixed DoS condition in the MBAE driver


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.04.1.1012
- Added various new layer 1 and layer 2 detection techniques
- Improved various aspects of installation and automatic upgrades
- Improved UI to make it easier to activate Premium
- Improved threat information telemetry
- Improved shields to prevent slowdowns and FPs in desktop-based applications
- Fixed FP with Excel addon
- Fixed bug executing Desktop shortcut after install
- Updated hooking framework


Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit 1.03.1.1220
- Change log not available for this version