Use a Ramdisk to increase Firefox security

Would appreaciate your comments on the following article:

Use a Ramdisk to increase Firefox security

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/14/use-a-ramdisk-to-increase-firefox-security/

 

Interesting approach! There's a utility called Virtual Hard Drive Pro that could be used to the same end:

http://www.farstone.com/software/virtual-hard-drive.htm

 

More on Ramdisk here:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/27/free-ramdisk-for-windows-vista-xp-2000-and-2003-server/

 

That guy has BAD logic.

Firstly How does he think the recovery tool will be able to be run ?

Secondly if a machine is in a state that someone can run a recovery tool, then they will be also able to install a trojan, disable/tweak security tools, so the next time you browse the web, ram-disk or not, they will be able to sniff exactly what your doing...

 

Hello,
Sounds like a useless overkill. And I don't see how it increases security, merely allows you to hide your pron history search better from the ex-wife's investigators.
Mrk

 

I used and posted about this product about 4 years ago. It worked great
but cost 69 bucks. They also sold a PC card that had 4 gig a mem on it but that was very expensive. I was running Firefox with it and it looks like same GUI as one listed above. At the time i posted here along time ago, nobody was interested.

http://tucows.com/preview/330411

 

I just checked cenatek's web site and man have they come along ways in 4 years. They now have express cards or a PCI adapter to use with Windows 98, XP and all versions of vista. Their old version of RAMDisk only allowed 30 uses. It almost looks like there is a free Vista version. Not sure yet.


http://www.cenatek.com/products.php

 

Yes but it's RC2...

 

I think you have to ask yourself what you're securing against. It might if you're looking to hide your browsing habits from data recovery or an amature attempting forensics, but it won't do anything for malware. If someone is attempting to monitor what sites you visit remotely, then it's unlikely that they will wait until your browser is closed (or your computer is shut down) and read the browser cache from disk; it's more likely that they will just monitor and log the traffic in realtime.

 

Notok

I agree your real time activity could be monitored. This is mainly to speed up your apps. I don't know if speeding a program such as Kaspersky would matter LOL
But it does speed up apps and browsing. But at present they only provide coverage for IE not Firefox.
Anytime you use RAM for your app, it is going to be way faster then using your HD.
STILL A USEFULL UTILITY

 

I disagree, not anytime, just sometimes (assuming a current common fully multitasking OS).
Negative side effects - not as much space for disk caching, not as much space for other processes which could cause more disk thrashing as memory is paged from ram to disk.
When you close the app/reboot the machine the cache has to be recreated so in the long run any savings are negated (specifically I have observed this with massive temp tables sql server).
Plus the amount of info you can cache in ram is far less than can be ever cached to disk - (again using sql server I have created dataware housed data (denormalised data) which is faster than trying to access the raw normalised data in ram (temp table)), I am talking 2gb of raw data warehouses into over 80 gb of data.

In certain circumstances I agree a ram disk MAY be benificial (single main process in use with ample free ram for the app AND data in ram), eg a pc set up to run a browser in kiosk mode. , but not anytime.