After installing Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.2, Internet Explorer 11 is crashing

Symptom

After installing Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.2, Internet Explorer keeps showing the following error message.

Internet Explorer has stopped working

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

There is an event, event ID 1000, related to EMET under Application Log.

Cause

It seems that Microsoft updated some codes in this version which is related to "Certificate Trust (Pinning)".

Resolution

1. Change "Certificate Trust (Pinning)" to "Disabled" in EMET 5.2.

For security compliance, you may not allow disabling this feature on your environment.

2. Rollback EMET to the previous version.

Eventually, Microsoft released an updated version of EMET 5.2. Please go to the following web site to download it.

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 5.2

Reference

EMET 5.2 Breaks Internet Explorer 11

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