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Title: Another interesting utility...
Post by: humble on March 24, 2008, 11:11:46 PM

Here is a free "sandbox" utility for anyone interested. Personally I think that I'd recommend Acronis 11 if you dont have a good digital image backup utility. The advantage with a program like Acronis is that you can restore even a single document or your entire OS if needed in about 20 minutes with everything "authenticated" already...no need to reinstall any programs at all.

[url][http://www.sandboxie.com//url]

Title: Re: Another interesting utility...
Post by: Gunthr on March 25, 2008, 12:13:25 PM

Good tip, Humble.  I always use my browser sandboxed.  This utility is really worth using to protect your computer. 

I've learned to limit my use of sandboxie to just the browser though, because I get confused - if you know what I mean. 

Here is a link to a great newsletter where I first learned about sandboxie:

http://techsupportalert.com/index.html (http://techsupportalert.com/index.html)

Title: Re: Another interesting utility...
Post by: llama on March 25, 2008, 04:35:23 PM

It works surprisingly well when I tested it, hmm, about one and a half years ago.

None of the drive-by downloads I tried at the time were able to get at the host system, and you couldn't download anything to the host system either.

I'd rather set up a free virtual appliance running Linux with Firefox in it, however, for setting up a truly bulletproof browsing sandbox, but sandboxie isn't bad.

-Llama

Title: Re: Another interesting utility...
Post by: Getback on March 25, 2008, 04:46:18 PM

What exactly is it?

Title: Re: Another interesting utility...
Post by: Gunthr on March 25, 2008, 05:25:14 PM

best to google it... the site explains it better than I could.