EMET offers a grab-bag of mitigation techniques that are described in some detail in its manual (PDF download): http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/9/4E9

EMET offers a grab-bag of mitigation techniques that are described in some detail in its manual (PDF download): http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/9/4E9A5137-F73D-4A4C-9192-444810C26F6B/EMET%204.0%20User%27s%20Guide.pdf http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/9/4E9A5137-F73D-4... Some of these techniques are enabled by default or on an opt-in basis in recent versions of Windows, and EMET can be used to enable them on older Windows systems. Other techniques would be too easily triggered by the normal operation of badly-written software, making the software unusably crashy.