Re:Sandboxie and Bittorrent/uTorrent client question

[MRF71]

Re: Sandboxie and Bittorrent/uTorrent client question
If uTorrent is properly working outside Sandboxie , then all you have to do is allow File access->direct access to your download folder and %AppData%\uTorrent folder.
I'm running it that way and it works great.
I also added Drop rights and force it to always run sandboxed.
The only "downside" of running uTorrent sandboxed is that you have to save the torrent file to your hard drive and then double-click it, otherwise if you open it directly with utorrent via sandboxed browser, it will open another instance of uTorrent.

Ok I'm quoting from this thread...http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=308877

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of running utorrent sandboxed?
I have set %AppData%\uTorrent folder to have direct access but my download folder is in the sandbox and I have added it to quick recovery so all I have to do is scan it then recover if it's clean and everything is fine so far...does anyone suggest any other settings?

[CyberMan969]

If you have lots of RAM it would also be nice to move your sandbox container folder to a RAMdisk; this will save your torrents HDD from a lot of future fragmentation as your torrents will be downloading straight into RAM. Of course you cannot do this for torrents whose combined filesize is larger than your RAMdisk.

For example: my RAMdisk is 26GB and I always run utorrent sandboxed for any files that are around 24GB or less (I leave some space for my TEMP files which also reside on the RAMdisk). As soon as the torrent files/folders finish downloading I move them to my regular torrents folder on my HDD for regular non-sandboxed seeding later on. This way the HDD gets less fragmentation and only gets the hits that I allow it to have. So far I never had to download a torrent larger than 24GB (in most cases far from it), so this method works well for me.

[MRF71]

Originally Posted by CyberMan969

If you have lots of RAM it would also be nice to move your sandbox container folder to a RAMdisk; this will save your torrents HDD from a lot of future fragmentation as your torrents will be downloading straight into RAM. Of course you cannot do this for torrents whose combined filesize is larger than your RAMdisk.

For example: my RAMdisk is 26GB and I always run utorrent sandboxed for any files that are around 24GB or less (I leave some space for my TEMP files which also reside on the RAMdisk). As soon as the torrent files/folders finish downloading I move them to my regular torrents folder on my HDD for regular non-sandboxed seeding later on. This way the HDD gets less fragmentation and only gets the hits that I allow it to have. So far I never had to download a torrent larger than 24GB (in most cases far from it), so this method works well for me.

There's no way that I could get infected by allowing the app data folder having direct access right?

[CyberMan969]

Originally Posted by MRF71

There's no way that I could get infected by allowing the app data folder having direct access right?

I'm not sure about this, maybe someone with more detailed knowledge of Sandboxie could answer. I run uTorrent as a standalone app anyway, this way utorrent has no files/folders in C:. All its files/folders reside within the same folder as its executable, and I sandbox the whole folder.