Exploit protection settings: I need more information

[Massimiliano]

From the tech support they told me to address the exploit engineers here on the forum about the changes I made to the exploit protection settings.
Therefore I attach a screen of the changes made:

all custom entries have been set as OTHER, except TextMaker and PlanMaker (which correspond to Word and Excel respectively) Softmaker Office products that have been set as MSOFFICE.

As for the advanced exploit settings I checked that there were no changes by clicking on the RESTORE DEFAULT button.

Please let me know if the settings are correct or require changes.

 

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[Massimiliano]

I attach the required logs

mbst-grab-results.zip

Thanks

Greeting

Massimiliano

[exile360]

Greetings,

I'll ping the Product Manager for the Anti-Exploit product as he'll likely either have the answers, or will be able to retrieve them straight from the Developers quickly.

@Arthi could you assist here please?  This customer wants to know whether or not these custom shields are configured properly for these specific applications.

Thanks

[Massimiliano]

Thanks for the moment while waiting for a response from @Arthi 

 

[Massimiliano]

 

No news on this @Arthi?

Thank you

Regards

[Massimiliano]

I haven't received any news for twelve days yet: can anyone give me clarification about my request?
Thank you
Greetings

[exile360]

My apologies that you sill haven't gotten a response.

Let me ping the Product Manager for Malwarebytes and hopefully she will be available to answer your questions.

@bdubrow could you assist please?  Thanks

[LiquidTension]

Hi @MAXBAR1,

The custom shields you've added along with the program types selected are fine. Selecting 'MS Office' for the two programs you've mentioned shouldn't cause any issues, but does slightly alter what actions Exploit Protection will allow and not allow the processes to perform. For example, if either program has scripting functionality built-in (leveraging something like Microsoft CScript), you will find this is blocked by Exploit Protection.

If you encounter any issues, just let us know.

[Massimiliano]

OK thanks.
Eventually it is better to also insert TextMaker and PlanMaker in the other category.