Hi,
Update: After 3 weeks of testing, I can safely say that Flash will NOT load 75% of the time everytime I start Firefox in Sandbox mode. (Never an issue with Sandboxie btw).
I’m using Avast Suite (Internet Security) 5.0.594
Windows 7 64bit Home Premium
Shockwave Flash v 10.1.53.64
Firefox v 3.6.6
First, after using avast free for 4-5 years, I’ve decided to buy a 2 year license (Suite) to show my support :). LOVE the new interface, the transparency of the application, ease of use. Congrats… you guys are really on the right track here.
However, I’ve encountered some issues which I thought you guys should know about.
(A)
In the Email and website page that showed up after the purchase, it mentioned that if I already had avast 5, I just needed to add the license file to upgrade. Every time I did this, it would tell me it was upgrading/updating the software, BUT looking at the license info, it was still for the free version (no firewall, still same expiry date as the free version etc etc). I tried this 3 times, with boots each time. It just never worked.
So, I uninstalled it, and reinstalled the one mentioned in the link provided. I now have the correct version (suite) with the firewall/sandbox 
(B)
However, the first time my computer booted after the new installation, Windows 7 mentioned that I didn’t have a genuine version of Windows before showing me the desktop. I canceled this windows message to continue, updated Avast 5 (it did it by itself) to the latest version and when I rebooted, I did NOT get the genuine message again… so it seems to have been a glitch but I thought worth mentioning. (To recap, after installing the purchased version of Avast 5 suite, on the first reboot, I get a message that Win7 isn’t genuine which it is). – Note that I reconfirmed on the Microsoft website that my version is indeed genuine so the problem is gone. It just got me worried for a bit ;). And I don’t know why it did that in the first place. Note that I never got this genuine message before this.
(C)
Now the issue if have (see update at the beginning of this post) is that I can’t make Firefox work with the latest flash player if I use the sandbox. I’ve tried it 20 times with different settings without avail. How am I supposed to make it work?
Message I get when Flash isn’t working… "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. " and there’s a bar on top of Firefox indicating that “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.”
Here’s what I did to test… Test site YouTube (and others).
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Sanbox internet access - Allow all virtualized applications to access the internet
Parameters - Web Browsers - Bookmarks, History and Cookies checked
Firefox Sandboxed – Flash NOT working
Firefox outside sandbox – Flash Working -
changed Parameters to All Settings…
Same results… Flash will not work within the sandbox, but will work outside the sandbox. -
Variations of the above with same results.
I’d really like to know how to make it work… I even tried to add the process NPSWF32.dll to the list of allowed process to access the internet without it making any differences.
Any help on this is really appreciated
Regards,
Rej
P.S. Flash now works sometimes. The first time flash worked 2 or 3 times in a row in Firefox while in Sandbox I thought the problem had fixed itself but after 3 weeks now, I’m realizing it’s not working well at all (about 75% failure rate). I’ve uninstalled & reinstalled both Flash & Firefox using their tools without changes. Hope you guys fix this as I prefer the way your Sandbox works than Sandboxie – I even removed sanboxie a few weeks ago to force myself to use only yours, but now I"m reconsidering… specially since it seems almost nobody have the issue – is it my setup that creates the bug? Also, is this a known bug by Avast developers?
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