Was it a safe thing to do?

Hi,

Sandboxie gave me these prompt windows. And I've double clicked to increase the migration file size both times.




Was it a safe thing to do? I mean no harm done right?

Best Wishes,
Iron Man

 

Nothing bad, on the contrary you made it work better for you

 

The migration size thing is about performance, not security.

If your migration size is X and your sandboxed program tries to write to a file of size X it will migrate to the sandbox.

If your sandboxed program tries to write to a file of size X+1 the write will fail.

If your max file size is huge and your program writes to that huge file you're going to end up with two versions of a large file, which eats up your HDD space and will use up a lot of I/O.

 

Iron man, I think you were installing a newer or Beta Firefox, right? I remember seeing those messages for urlclassifier3.sqlite when doing that in the past.

In addition to what Hungry man said. If you ignore/close SBIE2223, Sandboxie will use your original Firefox urlclassifier3.sqlite and make it read only instead of copying the file to the sandbox. If you change the size, which can be done by double clicking on SBIE2223 message, the file will be copied into the sandbox.

Bo

 

I don't know. I have installed Firefox two days ago. Have set it to manually download as it is forced to run in a sandbox. Yesterday those window prompts appeared out of no where. I have never in my a whole year of using sbie and ff experienced such a prompt. I've had start/run prompts but this? Never.

This is the update window of Firefox. Do you think this is the right stable release? If not I will download and install Firefox again.

 

Iron man, I have seeing those exact prompts when playing around with beta versions of Firefox when running the installer sandboxed. Usually, I ignore the SBIE message by closing it, Firefox installs sandboxed alright and the urlclassifier3.sqlite is not copied to the sandbox.

Two things I can tell you for sure, we should only see those SBIE messages when installing something in a sandbox by running the installer and Firefox will not upgrade sandboxed. When you installed Firefox 2 days ago, how did you run the installer?

Your about Firefox shows same version as mine.

Bo

 

I ran the installer as I always do. I've never faced those messages before. You can see the about window that I'm indeed using the final release and not the beta version. I'll install again. Let's see what happens.

 

Make sure forced programs is disabled.

Bo

 

Okay this is unexpected. When I started my pc a few minutes ago, sbie prompted window asking to add S600Mnt.exe to the Start/Run restriction. I did:



When I started my pc again this happened:

 

Okay.

 

I had downloaded Firefox from here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ and not from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/#desktop

After installing Firefox I had downloaded sbie(I had removed the .ini file the last time I had uninstalled sbie) and forced Firefox.

 

Iron man, getting those prompts doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your SBIE install, you just got to make sure that when you allow a program to start/run, it is legit. I did a quick search for S6000Mnt.exe and it seems safe. Maybe just to make sure, upload it to Virus Total and find out what program in your computer uses that exe. Thats what I would do.

Bo

 

Okay installed again. And found the reason and solved the problem.

When I choose this: sbie forces the whole directory of Firefox to start and run in a sandbox.

But when I choose these: sbie only forces those two to run in a sandbox instead of running all the others like crashreporter.exe , chrome.manifest etc. in the Firefox directory.

Same thing with IE. If chosen from Browsers the whole directory runs in sandbox along with S6000Mnt.exe It is run anyways at pc startup:

 

I don't force Plugin container, there's no need to do that. Plugin container will run sandboxed in the FF sandbox when Flash player is required even though its not forced.

Bo