Hi!
Can enybody tell me what is this thing & how usefull is it?
http://www.reviewsaurus.com/2006/06/great-free-protection-for-your-pc.html
How safe is Sandboxie?
Well, there are some security testers who already have run various tests and found out that it provided them the full protection. There are some who downloaded 50 MB of viruses, trojans and all bad stuff from the internet and when they stopped Sandboxie it was all gone
personally myself…i would stay away from it…click on link above
Thankyou for an advice.
I suggest you try a forum search for sandboxie as it has been discussed a couple of times before. This one also in the General forum, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=22589.0.
Sandboxie works real good, its one of the best security app’s
Give it a try.
Hi!
Thanks again for an advices , I tried Sandboxie & recently my “surfing” speed become slower. So is there any reason for this ???
P.S. I’m using dialup connection & Opera 9.02 as a default browser
You will as I mentioned in the other topic have an impact on browsing as unless you change the default settings, it won’t be using your regular browser cache, but one inside the sandbox. When you close that you will lose the cached files, so next time you visit the site all images, etc. have to be downloaded again that will have an impact.
It is possible to change the settings so you use the real cache, bookmarks, etc. but that can leave a weakness in the sandbox.
Do that mean, that when I’ll turn off sandboxie I gonna lost all my bookmarks ???
I don’t think so, but you can always export your bookmarks into a floppy disk… save them and you can later import them again.
In Mozilla Firefox this is something you can do, and I guess even in Opera.
Karl
Any bookmarks that you create during that session of sandboxie disappear from the sandbox virtual environment when it is closed down, you working with copies of cache, registry, bookmarks, etc. so they can’t get infected, even if they are infected or changed, at the end of the session everything is gone and your real registry, cache, bookmarks remain uninfected and unchanged.
Your bookmarks in your normal firefox profile remain unchanged, no added bookmarks from the sandboxie session, unless you change the settings to use the real bookmarks and cache, etc…
“Do that mean, that when I’ll turn off sandboxie I gonna lost all my bookmarks”
I installed Sandboxie a few days ago.
When you quit all programs running in sandbox, it as default deletes all information in the sandbox, but before doing that it allows to export data files, bookmark file among them to Firefox replacing the original when the sandbox session was started, from the sandbox
While running Firefox in a sandbox, any changes you make to extension like NoScript about allowed whitelisted sites, will not stay of course after deleting the sandbox.
So you can run another instance of firefox in normal Windows at same time and make same changes there. One way would of course be to also recover extension file data from the sandbox, but carries in itself the danger of also malware back.
Makes also ideal to try different extensions. Or gamers with programs.
I decided Sandboxie would be good idea for me, since i have my system experiencing crashes quite often now (too many security apps conflicting or some hardware stuff) and maybe causing corrupt firefox profiles. So instead of needing to make new profiles, import bookmarks from the older, customizing the look, all that takes so much time, just decided better run it in a sandbox. If it crashes, no harm done to the original profile.
Also one does not need any antispyware programs if always running browser in a sandbox only. My new profile, hope to be a last I need to make is so new, I had not time to install to FF quoting extension, thats why the “xxx” on top, lol.
IE could be also run very loose with Active-X allowed.
Basically if someone is a personality type of always cleaning PC, afraid that wife, girl- or boyfriend etc. finds visited sites etc, this is also ideal. Absolutely all surfing information will be destroyed, unless some special filesystem examination tool for deleted files is used.