I have installed avast on a PC acting as a home server (running XP). I saved a install exe on this server. When I access this file on the server via another PC a sandbox warning pops up on the server PC. I can of course not see this and the file access request merely hangs and nothing happens on this PC. This happens even if I’m merely copying the file on the client PC.
This doesn’t seem right. I have also disabled the sandbox now.
In general I don’t think sandbox feature is very useful.
I have exactly the same problem: a client accessing an executable through a share pops up a sandbox warning/question dialog on the server. The explorer share session open on the client machine hangs until the pop-up on the server is dismissed. This is repeatable.
I have 3 computers:
two 32-bit XPpro SP3
one 64-bit Win7
all are running Avast Free 6.0.1000.
This sandbox problem occurs with any combination of my computers as server and client. The only requirements are that AutoSandbox be enabled on the server machine and there be a file in the share directory that Avast doesn’t like: e.g., the installer for TeraCopy (http://www.codesector.com/files/teracopy.exe).
Just discovered that turning off AutoSandbox does NOT stop the server pop-up problem. I just encountered it again in a different shared directory with yet another installer file Avast doesn’t like. AutoSandbox is DISABLED on all of my machines, but a Sandbox pop-up still occurs on the server when a client opens the share containing the suspect file.