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Well well, I haven’t been updating much on the security corner of our blog. Before anyone curse and swears again on “hacked” e-gold accounts, stolen passwords and some porn pop-ups coming your way, Sandboxie up your PC! The best part, it’s free 
A little synopsis on Sandboxie,
When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations.
For example, if you run the Freecell program to play a game, it starts by reading the previously recorded statistics, displaying and altering them as you play the game, and finally writing them back to disk for future reference.
Sandboxie changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk.
Tested it on my Firefox and it works completely well without any problems at all, no lags nothing. And if Sandboxie does what it claims, basically adwares, spywares can’t harm you with a firefox/ internet explorer sandboxed
Try it today and gimmi a shoutout to tell me how is it working for you!
Throwing in a plug-in as well, the portfolio is updated with a few thoughts.
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I would not rely on a sandbox alone. Sure, it may protect you from unwanted
read/write activity but at the point where you are actually infected by a virus
or maleware its already running in your memory… at the point you quit the
sandbox it will most likly spread freely on your system.
Oh, thanks for the comment whizzer, so you’re suggesting that people should have a good AV running first, have it scanned and then install Sandbox?
Well, it seems the author of Sandboxie have thought about malware programs and such, see the FAQ about that:
http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?FrequentlyAskedQuestions
There is a program out there that can prevent any program to infect a PC, but it is not freeware. This program will delete all made changes to a system after the shutdown of the PC. You can set up in which folders the program should write something and which it can’t (for example the automatic virus updates can be written to the disk). It protects the operating system completely of any changing that can be made:
http://www.fortresgrand.com/
Always use at least one anti-virus program and one anti-malware
program running. There’s nothing wrong by adding firewalls, sandboxes,
encryption utilites etc. on top, but never rely on one product only.
Yep, that for sure!
sandboxie only protects you from writes/reads to/from your real disk
and registry… as far as I can see it does not protect your memory
thus after you close the application the virus will most likely still be
resident in your memory and free to write to your real disk.
There is a free firewall, Core Force (force.coresecurity.com), which
restricts writes/reads to registry and disk for ALL applications
unless you grant them this. However, it’s not fully stable at this
point and still difficult to configure if you don’t have a lot of time and
knows how it works.
nice to see this blog post building up.
personally i’m running an xp pro machine with norman antivirus, lavasoft’s anti-malware and hiding behind two routers.
what about you guys?
>> sandboxie only protects you from writes/reads to/from your real disk
>> and registry… as far as I can see it does not protect your memory
>> thus after you close the application the virus will most likely still be
>> resident in your memory and free to write to your real disk.
Well, not if the Virus was started by a program inside of the Sandboxie. Thats how I read it in the FAQ.
I have a Router and use WinXP SP2 with Avast Antivirus. No other things, no external firewall (only the WinXP Firewall). I can count on one hand how many viruses/trojans I had installed since 15 years of my PC experience. My e-Gold account was never hacked since more than 1 year and I had several thousands on it for several months. I let run the Rootkit Revealer (see www.sysinternals.com) from time to time to see if my PC is clean.
impressive
I only use Ccleaner everytime I close Firefox
plus Mcafee virus scan , Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy.
Whizzer is incorrect! Once you close the app all changes remain in the sandbox. ITs like a virtual world that you put on pause but that world unpauses everytime you sandbox something. Even if a file is memory resident the sandbox traps it in virtual memory, you close sandbox that is a child process is still run under the parent processes handles and environment. I just end process’ed all sandbox EXE’s and the file system drivers isntalled are still active i made a shortcut to this site and its in my sandbox folder not my real desktop.
Antivirus is good though, The only time sandbox doesnt work is when you run a viral exe yourself if its run from IE in sandbox its a child process and it is governed by the same rules as IE.