avast! Pro AV "Sandbox" vs. Online Armor "RunSafer"

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Hi,

For those of you running avast! Pro AV along side with OnlineArmor FW, could you tell which of the two technologies do you prefer and why?

Thanks

2

What do you mean by “which of the two”?
You’re comparing an antivirus (avast! Pro) and a firewall (Online Armor).
You need both ::slight_smile:

3

Well, maybe you don´t know about OnlineArmor´s technology called “RunSafer” which is similar to a SandBox, on which the user decides which programs (mainly browsers) are going to run safer. take a look at this link:

http://www.online-armor.com/webhelp3/KF-RunSafer.html

4

RunSafer only drops some admin privileges for web browsers and that’s all - there’s no other protection. When you remove these privileges, such application cannot install drivers, shutdown the system or inject code into other processes/threads. However, any other system changes to your PC won’t be handled at all - malware can still affect your PC (filesystem changes, configuration, registry, …).

5

Thank you very much PK :slight_smile:

6

Diazruanova, the sandbox is only into avast suite (AIS) and not the antivirus…
Oops… :-[

7

Sandbox is also included in avast! Pro AV…

8

It is kind of weird that you, being Mr. Tech and hero of many avast´s forum battles, did not know better ;D

9

Weird? I don’t think so. We all join the ooops team from time to time, don’t we? :wink: