CrystalAEP (Crystal Anti-Exploit Protection) is designed to provide front-line protection against Internet-borne threats such as viruses and malware. Unlike the typical anti-virus program, Crystal does not attempt to recognize threats based on signatures, and does not require constant updating to protect against the latest threats. Crystal works instead by manipulating at-risk software while it runs to help form an environment which is hostile to Internet worms, malware and other types of malicious code. CrystalAEP is a new security application that is designed to protect against so called “drive-by download” exploits, in which an unsuspecting user visits a website which attempts to trigger software vulnerability within an application the user has legitimately installed to force the silent installation of malicious software.

CrystalAEP is not an antivirus program because it does not compare all the programs a user attempts to run against a known list of bad software through the use of virus “signatures”. However, it scuppers the ability of drive-by download attacks to succeed. It does this by altering the behavior of the most at risk software programs (such as the email client and the web browser) to introduce checks at key points at which malicious software can be installed or observed in the first stages of execution, and preventing it pre-emptively from succeeding.

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