Sandbox Testing Article

[ZZman]

Some info on Sandboxes and testing results.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080930/tc_infoworld/111070;_ylt=Al48NA.G1A0D8GuNv9XIJ_yDzdAF

 

[Drew99GT]

From what I've seen from people testing virtualization software at the Wilder's forum, Sandboxie is absolutely 100% bulletproof. In fact, people are now creating malware to defaet sandboxes (such as robodog), and they can't touch Sandboxie.

Sandboxie is so easy to use - they way that article describes it is wrong. You don't clean up infections with Sandboxie like Prevx does. Sandboxie prevents them. And Prevx is not 100% sandboxing virtualization software like Sandboxie.

 

[oily boyd]

+1 on SandboxIE.

Highly recommended if you let others use your computer.

 

[DragRace]

Sandboxie is an awsome program!

Couple it with Antivir and a virtual setup like Returnil,and some antispyware apps,your golden.

just wish more people would learn to think outside the box more and try virtual environments,as it'll help your PC stay clean!~

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Drew exposed Sandboxie on here (thank you sir!!) It works great!

However, for some reason, my Vista installation refuses to run Sandboxie as of late, as well as the audio utility. That computer has had Vista on it for one year, time to reinstall.

 

[ZZman]

Dreww99GT: If you read the article Sandboxie was almost Bulletproof. It really only failed at one thing that it appears most failed at, and it only did not remove all remanants or the XPantivirus spyware. So I would say it gave a awesome showing.

 

[Drew99GT]

I posted on Wilders about this article and several people have tested Sandboxie against the 2 exploits that it supposedly failed. Bottom line is it blocks both of them - heck, the clipboard exploit just writes text to the clipboard - does nothing to your machine.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1325562#post1325562

Tzuk, the fellow who created Sandboxie (a genious!) rebuked the clipboard "exploit" here:

http://sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=26999#26999

TNS, have you posted about or searched in the Sandboxie forum? Might want to ask there.

http://sandboxie.com/phpbb/index.php?sid=a33ab97a0267892a070ad68a319b8b4f

From all accounts, Sandbox is likely the most secure virtualization program out there - in part because it is the most widely used and tested. When exploits are found that can defeat it, Tzuk has them fixed within hours. Like I indicated above, after these virtualization programs came to be, malware writers started writing malware to defeat them. The most prevalent is robodog. I don't know the status as of know, but Sandboxie was one of only a few sandboxes that can defeat it, and when Robodog was found, Tzuk modified Sandboxie very quickly to defeat it.

Best of all, IT'S FREE!

 

[ZZman]

Thanks for those links and info. I will look those up.

 

[[RT] ProjUltraZ]

i liked sandboxie so much i bought it, also Prevx is gearing up for an update to 2.0 which i'm also running w/ NOD32. very light and fast setup