Sandboxie v2.86 deleted "My Documents"

Concerning what happened to you, no. Storing important data on a net connected computer is an absolute no~no and sound advice I agree. Having your precious FDISR in place, wise. I do sense however most reader's will be viewing this thread as nothing more than a warning post based on your rather unfortunate experience. Stating your quick withdrawl and lack of willingness to sort this out with support, you'd be hard pressed to prove to any of us (yourself included) this to be the sole fault of SB.

On the other hand, this thread is a fine example of why it's important to have a good backup strategy in place. Folk's like youself, Peter2150, other prominent poster's here, convey well the benefit's and reliability of running First Defense. Best wishes toward's finding software that rises to your demanding standard's, not so sorry to hear SB didn't make the cut. Further investigation may indeed yield a happy ending .... "Well my disaster with Sandboxie, might be a reason for me to use PowerShadow after all. I will think about it." You do that Erik.


Steve

 

http://www.techsupportalert.com/security_virtualization.htm

I was considering Sandboxie, but I am not so sure anymore.

 

But apparently he considers it one of his 48 best ever freeware utilities:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

(Best free browser protection utility.)

 

That was my assumption too. But as he says, that's not the case, so back to square one.
I still don't get it. The only thing that stops me from saying "it's impossible" is that i believe him.

Well, the user data is accessible only if you don't set it right.
Look for that closedfilepath comand. With this, you prevent sandboxed programs from even knowing a folder exists.

It is your call though.

 

@tepe2

Read this for a response:
http://sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1414

 

I wouldn't worry so much about Sandboxie, if it passes the test on your computer, Sandboxie will work fine.
Sandboxie can't handle my setup, but that isn't common for all computers.
I replaced Sandboxie with DefenseWall, which works with trusted and untrusted applications and my browser is an untrusted application.

Besides, I don't trust any security program. My frozen snapshot takes care of all the failures of each security software.
So it doesn't really matter how good or bad these security softwares are.

 

If you were exploring folders through My Computer, Sandboxie would not be involved in this, and certainly wouldn't delete your folders. Now, I understand you had something nasty happen to you, but blaming Sandboxie for it without any proof to back it up, is not a good way to deal with it.

tzuk

 

I am using Sandboxie with the same setup as Erik. I have My Docs on drive D and have had no problems.

I do not think that Erik's problems were a result of Sandboxie but must have been caused by something else.

 

Anyone had this happen since last time? new version is out and is improved.

 

I've been running version 2.86 since the middle of May with no problems whatsoever. I finally updated to the new version, 3.01 about 2 weeks ago and everything has been fine. It's one of my favorite apps and another good layer of protection.

I have a normal setup compared to Eriks. Everything is on my C: drive with my D: drive being my OEM e-machines recovery partition. I don't have an alternative data partition set up.

 

I've never had any trouble with Sandboxie 2.86, right now I am useing Sandboxie 3.01. I have 2 drives (C+D) in a raid 0, so almost everything is on C drive. My document folder is not called Documents, but it is on C drive. One of the first places a hacker looks for info that he is looking for is the Documents folder. I also have important Documents Read only and Hidden.