Sandbox

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totalsolutions wrote: »

A virtual PC is a new install of the OS and all the patches, etc. + licence - sandboxie does what it says on the tin and only 450Kb

Listen to Episode #172 | 27 Nov 2008 | 90 min.- http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

I can really recommend:

http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-172.htm

Steve and Leo return to take a much closer look at "Sandboxie," an extremely useful, powerful, and highly recommended Windows security tool they first mentioned two years ago. This time, after interviewing Sandboxie's creator, Ronen Tzur, Steve explains why he is totally hooked and why Leo is wishing it was available for his Macs.

And http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-174.htm

Having described "Sandboxie" and Virtual Machine sandboxing utilities in the past, Steve and Leo discuss the limitations of any sort of sandboxing for limiting the negative impacts of malware on a user's privacy and system's security.

Although they're both fairly lengthly they're certainly worth a read if you'e considering sandboxing your applications...

Mercenary

I've been using Sandboxie for ages.
I sandbox my browsers, media player, various games, and test out apps to see if they're any good....and safe, everything I can use it with, in fact. It's fantastic .

I have set up several sandboxes for different uses and have a special one set up for doing online shopping or banking. This secure one only allows IE7 or Firefox to contact the internet and deletes itself after every use so that there is nothing lurking with evil intent from any previous browsing session.:cool:

Aiadi

Deleted_User wrote: »

am I correct in thinking it'd then open winzip in a sandbox and the contents in theory wouldn't touch your PC until you'd recovered the files out of the sandbox?

That's quite a barrier for all types of nasties.

Yes, you are correct there. That is what I usually do extracting zipped files. It even opens PDFs in a sandboxed PDF reader if you want it to.

cloud_dog

Sandboxie............... BIG <<was looking for a thumbs up image but cant find one>>