I tried to virtualize Chrome on two different machines running windows XP sevice pack three with the new Internet 5 suite
They both crashed windows and I was shown the “blue screen”
I know chrome is supposed to sandbox each window as a different process, yet I thought virtualization through Avast would give an extra layer of protection against malware. Any solution ?
Thanks in advance
Frederic
What was the exact build of avast! IS?
buid of IS is 5.0.418
no problem here with Chrome virtualized, but I’m in Seven. What I wanted to say: Google Chrome is supposed to have native sandboxing abilities, how safe I have no idea, what’s visible only is that the program is installed at user level, together with the browser profile, located in app data (Windows account). So can we imagine possible conflicts when using another sandboxing utility on top of that ? I’m just wondering… also, if Chrome’s sandboxing abilitues were proven to be safe, there would be no need to use anything else with it. I need some documentation about that, will Google it…
edit: http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/new-approach-to-browser-security-google.html
they’re actually using Windows native security features, especially in Vista and Seven, that others could use too…
fdelaroche: could you please send me latest minidump files (\Windows\Minidump) to kurtin@avast.com? Thanks.
Would you believe that I am using Chrome virtualized in XP to post this? I am! I’m not sure what the difference is, but it works find for me.
yes never a problem for me
i have run virtualised process now and will surf with Chrome on this window, this thread