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Hi folks,

So I was just randomly navigating my MBAM Premium interface and noticed that Edge isn't listed in the Manage Protected Applications window.  I'm a long time user of MBAM going back to when they started, and before Anti-Exploit was integrated into MBAM I used MBAE and I could have sworn there was an entry with "Edge (with add-ons)"  Does MBAM no longer protect Edge with its Anti-Exploit technology?

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Hello,

Similar to Google and their Chrome browser, Microsoft prevents third-party DLL injections into Edge. As a result, we removed Edge from the list of shielded/protected applications. However, Microsoft Edge is still protected by the Exploit Protection component in Malwarebytes, just via other means of protection that do not involve DLL injection. Due to the differences in protection, Microsoft Edge is not listed as a shielded application, but does still benefit from Exploit Protection in some areas.

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19 hours ago, exile360 said:

Is it possible to override this by adding Edge to the list of shielded applications manually as you can for chrome.exe?

Adding Edge to the list of protected applications will cause Exploit Protection to inject its DLL into the parent process of Edge (which is allowed by Microsoft). However, Exploit Protection is still prevented from injecting into child processes. Injecting only into the parent process and not child processes does not offer any protection.

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Understood, thanks.  Is it the same for Chrome, or does the override work in that case?  I ask because I was told early on that adding chrome.exe manually would re-enable Exploit Protection via DLL injection for Chromium based browsers and that it was removed from the default list for compatibility (basically so that Chrome would quit claiming Malwarebytes was incompatible).  I'm using SRWare Iron, a Chromium based browser but not Chrome itself if that makes any difference, though it does use the same executable name as Chrome (i.e. chrome.exe).

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Google has yet to fully block third-party DLL injection into Chrome, so adding Chrome to the custom list of protected applications will indeed result in DLL injection-based protection from Malwarebytes.

Reports suggest that Google Chrome version 72 will fully prevent third-party DLL injection. I don't have any information on other Chromium-based browsers.

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OK, thanks for the info.  Yeah, hopefully others like Iron will determine a different path when Google implements this change.  I much prefer the more robust protection provided by allowing DLL injection, especially since the vast majority of attacks/infections Google intends to stop with this change are actually the result of exploit attacks themselves which Malwarebytes would stop if allowed to properly shield the browser's process.

If they'd do something more like UAC or handle it the same way that extensions are handled where the user is allowed to determine which DLL injections to allow based on a white list that would be preferable to the road they're taking of blocking all out of hand.

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