DavidR
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That would rather depend on what virtualising software you are using, generally all it would be doing is protecting the live system. I don’t know if that in itself would still mean any browser vulnerabilities or weaknesses could still be exploited.
I don’t use IE, or I try not to use it if I can help it so I’m not really familiar with it, other than you have IE8 (if you have XP that is the last IE version), which isn’t as secure as IE9 or IE10, if you have win 7.
I think that there were some topics on the avast! Free/Pro/Suite relating to a missing border in the avast sandbox. They may be relating to older versions of avast rather than the current version 8.0.1489.