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Microsoft re-releases EMET 5.2, fixing IE problems under Windows 8.1

  If you want to run the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.2 on Windows 8.1, you need to download the new version — which is virtually indistinguishable from the old version.
  Microsoft on Friday released EMET 5.2, which adds a few features to the venerable but touchy system-hardening package, and hardly a minute passed before bug reports were appearing online.It seems that EMET 5.2 caused IE11 running on Windows 8.1 to crash.
  According to poster AnaBna on the TechNet forums:

Using Windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer 11, EMET 5.2 causes Internet Explorer to crash just by navigating to a website.  I’m using ‘Recommended Security’ settings in EMET, with the default ‘Popular Software’ protection profile.

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