IS Avast sandbox effective ? watch that video ..

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@justphil

If you dont know anything about sandboxing , plz dont learn about it from random (non educated) comments @ youtube :stuck_out_tongue:
try to be more pro ?

nice day 8)

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Sandboxing is nothing new, and it isnā€™t something Iā€™m learning. I donā€™t think your grasping the concept that IE is sandboxed but downloaded .exeā€™s are not sandboxed here, the malware must also kept within the sandbox. I canā€™t make it any more clear to you. Also, his firewall was turned off but you donā€™t seem to pay any attention to that or that this test was ran in a shoddy fashion at best.

Your telling others they donā€™t know much about security is hilarious, go back to your amateur youtube security vids please.

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Avast sandbox is good add-on that prevented us from bad trojan, malware or what so ever while we surfing, Iā€™ve used sandboxies since last year that keep me safe from what ever attacked on my system.
http://www.sandboxie.com/

Iā€™m now ran with Avast 5.0.396 sandbox on Firefox 3.6 without any problem.

Looking forward with better improvement on Avast sandbox, keep good works.

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yes, of course yes, as as explained above, the sandbox is another layer of protection in case the others fail. And I canā€™t see anyway how the sandbox should depend at all on other security shields in avast. You should be able to turn them all off, run the sandbox, and be safe for whatever happens inside the sandbox. One issue seems to be an option in the sandbox expert settings related to ā€œsafe locationsā€ where itā€™s not clear what safe locations are (could be the desktop, predefined download folder etcā€¦Iā€™m not sure at all). So when this option remains checked (the default), things can happen outside the sandbox, and thatā€™s a wanted behavior. Would be interesting if that was controlled, ie if we knew what locations are considered safe, and what we send thereā€¦

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" ā€¦Would be interesting if that was controlled, ie if we knew what locations are considered safe, and what we send thereā€¦ "

exactly , this information is critical to the user and its not detailed @ the help file of AIS

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avast sandbox is a little unstable in firefox 3.6. If ouver many tabs it gets unstable, the sound sometimes does not work in videos, it seems that avast sandbox also virtualizes the sound insulation of windows 7 which was not to be isolated.

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hi,

you should have started a new thread for two reasons:

1 the thread here is too old
2 the thread here is about sandbox security, not functionality.