I upgraded to Avast 7-0-1407, and I’ve got a few games that I like to play in the sandbox. This worked fine with Avast 6. Unfortunately with Avast 7 it tells me something is running in the Sandbox, but I can’t see or play it. It asks me how I would like to open it next time, and when I instruct it to use the sandbox nothing opens, I just get the question box again. This happens if I use auto sandbox or the ask choice. Could somebody help me. I’ve already uninstalled and did a new clean installation but the problem still exists.
I’m running Windows XP sp3 with the Comodo firewall.
Yes, they did this on purpose. The autosandbox was never supposed to be used for on-demand sandboxing. I knew a bunch of people were using the Ask option this way, but it was never intended to be used like that. It was supposed to be a place where something could be allowed to run (and thus scanned while running) while still protecting your system. So now it terminates whatever is running in it after analysis is done.
If you want a sandbox to run whatever you want in, you need to purchase a paid version. Tentative plans are to completely remove Ask mode in a future update.
Thanks for that, I just wonder why after their analysis, they offer the choice to next time run in Sandbox. So OK now after they tell me its not Malware I shall open normally. Thanks or your help.