Trend Micro Proactively Helps Protect Against Zero-Day Attacks Like the Recent IE Exploit

The recent attacks on Google and other large organizations (currently being referred to by others as “Aurora,” “Google attacks,” or “HYDRAQ”) refer to a set of carefully orchestrated, sophisticated, and highly complex attacks. They comprised malicious threats to all three communication vectors—email, Web, and files, plus, most notably, a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE). In order to stay protected, businesses and end users need to deploy proactive vulnerability protection plus cloud-based threat mitigation solutions to stay one step ahead of the threat.
We want to let our readers know that Trend Micro can help users proactively block this malicious attack and others like it—with or without the out-of-band patch released by Microsoft yesterday. In addition to business solutions like Intrusion Defense Firewall (IDF)—an OfficeScan™ plug-in—and Trend Micro Deep Security, we also offer a free tool—Trend Micro Browser Guard—that proactively protects home users by preventing exploits. Trend Micro Browser Guard protects by detecting buffer overflow and heap spray attempts as well as shellcode, thereby protecting users ahead of the threat.
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In addition to these proactive solutions, Trend Micro also recommends that companies and home users ensure that their security software is up-to-date—preferably that users utilize Web reputation capabilities to block access to sites that host malicious code like those used in (continue reading...)