my understanding is that safezone is an isolated virtual environment separate from the rest of a system. Is it possible to acquire an infection in safezone and have the infection only in the safe zone environment but not in the regular OS environment?
It’s a good question.
I can’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be vulnerable to browser malware?
(perhaps the more so because it seems to be based on an old version of chromium - so does it have the old and vulnerable built in flash plug-in version).
http://www.avast.com/lp-safezone
https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=712
Thanks pondus - but I can’t see how those threads answer the OPs question?
If you go to an infected site in safezone, and eg the safezone flash plug-in is compromised, then surely safezone browser is compromised (as a user of safezone I’d be glad to hear that this is not possible, and it can’t be infected by visiting malware sites)?
(there was also this a while ago
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=82291.0
- indicating that safezone ddn’t actually keep everything on the host system out either - but I gather that particular issue is sorted now)
As you read from those linker, the point with safe zone is to not get infected, but nothing is 100% the bad guys try new tricks every day