Norman Sandbox?

[C.S.J]

hey guys,

just how good is this norman sandbox (heuristics) ?

as its in the new f-secure 2007 suite.

any comparisons to other heuristics such as nods and antivir's ?

[kjempen]

Sorry for not answering your question, but...

F-Secure 2007 = KAV engine + their own engine + LavaSoft AdAware + Norman Sandbox?

EDIT: You can read more about Norman's Sandbox technology here (http://www.norman.com/Virus/Sandbox/en), and if you take a look at AV-Comparatives' (http://www.av-comparatives.org/) latest retrospective/proactive test it is rated as "Advanced" which should give you some indication of how good it is.

[C.S.J]

kaspersky antivirus engine
blacklight rootkit engine
norman sandbox heuristics
lavasoft spyware (improved)

im sure there are more, but i want to know more about this norman sandbox, wonder if anyone knows, i hear very good things about it.

when i googed it, a number of independant sites rate it has the best proactive protection, and mention its mainly for buisinesses. (apparently such good proactive isnt needed in home protection *sigh*)



***** nobody have any comments on this? *****

[IBK]

Norman is also included in the proactive tests of av-comparatives...

[Firecat]

{QUOTE-> kaspersky antivirus engine
blacklight rootkit engine
norman sandbox heuristics
lavasoft spyware (improved)

im sure there are more, but i want to know more about this norman sandbox, wonder if anyone knows, i hear very good things about it.

when i googed it, a number of independant sites rate it has the best proactive protection, and mention its mainly for buisinesses. (apparently such good proactive isnt needed in home protection *sigh*)



***** nobody have any comments on this? ***** <-QUOTE}
While I can't show you how good or bad the Sandbox is, you can definitely see for yourself if you have any suspicious samples with you:

http://sandbox.norman.no/live.html

[penjoseph]

We have been using Norman for the past 4 years with corporate licensing.

One problem we faced till last year with Norman Sandbox is if a mail attachment is approximately more than 1 MB, the email client - Outlook\Outlook Express just hangs.

To get the email client working again one had to delete the *.TMP files in Norman folder & then the attachment, making it a regular headache for a company with more than 100 computers.

Also when the scanning is going on, it takes a lot of system resources, bringing down PIII systems with 128MB RAM.

Now they have rectified the problem - but the issue still persists for large mail attachments, say about 5MB & even for zipped\compressed files.

Joseph