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  1. Hitman Pro Alert actually does prevent a lot of bad exploits from taking place on a system level as well as from within all installed browsers. In fact, HMPA does so well, that about less than a month ago, it was actually preventing the current version of my Comodo Ice Dragon Browser from even opening, citing a shell-code mitigation. I even submitted a ticket to the company about it since after attempting to contact Comodo, I didn't get very far with them. When I received a response back from SurfRight, they said that they were aware of it and were working on a fix in a new build. Yes they've had many beta builds. Everybody knows that, but the stable builds they've provided work and they work very well. And the exploit mitigations and application configurability are far more extensive than MalwareBytes AntiExploit---without question. I'm not knocking MalwareBytes. I think MBAM is a great product and should be employed by every computer user as an integral part of keeping oneself secure, but as far as system hardening is concerned, the latest version of HitmanPro Alert has a vastly greater array of exploit mitigation options available and goes way above and beyond what MBAE has to currently offer. Anyway, I'm not surprised that HitmanPro Alert 3 intercepted this shell-code attack when I attempted to open my Comodo Ice Dragon browser. Comodo has always traditionally used older versions for use in creating their Mozilla-based browser using the Firefox Open Source project. SurfRight wasn't very specific with me as to what caused HMPA to intercept the attack vector, but it certainly seems possible that it could have to do with an inherent flaw that plagued Comodo Ice Dragon at the time. It would seem more likely from my own investigation of the matter. HitmanPro Alert doesn't just simply alert, it protects users from many things by for example using sand-boxing technology, anti-keylogging, it also prevents process hollowing and sandbox-aware malware and it even has a crypto-guard feature to prevent ransomware from infiltrating the OS. If you're still using a beta version which does not provide this functionality, then maybe that's the problem. EMET doesn't even come close to providing the protections that the latest version of HitmanPro Alert 3 does and MBAE also lags way behind HMPA 3. My experience with Comodos Ice Dragon browser proves exactly what HitmanPro Alert claims it does----by locking down back-door access and preventing exploits and other various attacks. Its interception capabilities and stable operation for Windows is without equal as far as system-hardening is concerned. In all my testing, I have not even run into any compatibility issues with HitmanPro Alert either. Of course, that's not to say that HMPA is the perfect answer to complete system security-------but if any software even comes close to such a concept, I'd say the engineers at SurfRight are about the closest any pc-owner is going to get, by providing this comprehensive exploit mitigation tool-------Think of it as the mortar between the security bricks that make up your system's firewall-------if these holes are not filled-------then one would certainly be leaving themselves open to attack. In today's ever-increasing cyber landscape of APT's and Zeroday exploits, a lacadasical approach to system hardening simply flies in the face of the logial concept of applications-layering. It would be foolish to think one has enough security in place while at the same time still leaving gaping holes open to cyberspace.
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