ZoneAlarm ForceField free on patch Tuesday

Discussion in 'sandboxing & virtualization' started by Victek, Aug 11, 2008.

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  1. fax

    fax Registered Member

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    Already been discussed here... ;)
    https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1250921&postcount=4

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 13, 2008
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  2. Sportscubs1272

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    They need to cut down on the processes and memory use. It was pretty much unusable on my XP box. Yahoo messenger crashed and my machine slowed down to a crawl. On my Vista laptop performance improved a little bit, but I think I will stick with Sandboxie for the time being.
     
    Sportscubs1272, Aug 14, 2008
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    This is great for free.No slowdown here with Avira and Outpost.No set up or intervention so great for the masses
     
    waters, Aug 14, 2008
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  4. ambient_88

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    I agree. ForceField has a lot of processes and uses quite a bit of memory. If AV developers can trim down their processes to two, Checkpoint should be able to do the same for ForceField.
     
    ambient_88, Aug 14, 2008
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  5. fax

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    Out of curiosity how many processes do you see and what is the total memory usage? Here is basically unnoticeable (VISTA and 4GB of RAM)

    Overall 16.6 MB
    2 ISWMGR.EXE --> 11MB
    1 ForceForce.exe --> 2.8 MB
    1. ISWSVC.exe --> 2.8 MB

    What about other similar solutions (e.g. sandboxie) how much do they consume?

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 16, 2008
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  6. ambient_88

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    When I tested ZA ForceField (Vista, 2GB RAM), it had 4 processes and used about the same amount of memory as the one you posted.

    Sandboxie is lighter than ForceField and covers more applications. If I remember correctly, there are 4 processes when you run an application inside, though the memory usage is low.
     
    ambient_88, Aug 16, 2008
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  7. fax

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    Uuuhm, then there is something more than memory usage since 16MB over 2 GIGA is 0.0...% of memory usage :), and even if it could use less memory... I am not sure what could be the real impact.

    Probably its more an issue on how well it works on a system rather then its memory usage.

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 16, 2008
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    Any tried it,s viurtualization? How strong it is against malware?
    I tried some samples and allowed all pop ups. Did not notice any virtualization though. I missed something I think.
     
    aigle, Aug 16, 2008
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  9. ambient_88

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    For a program that is made to sandbox browsers specifically, 4 processes is quite a lot. NIS 2009 uses less memory, so ForceField can definitely lower that down. Also, when a browser is run inside ForceField the memory usage is higher than usual. For example, when I ran Firefox with 3 tabs open(no add-ons), it used about 150MB of RAM.
     
    ambient_88, Aug 16, 2008
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    uuuhm, strange... I still have exactly same memory usage with both IE7 (4 tabs) and FF3 (4 tabs)... may be its because I am using ZAFF latest beta version (1.2.74.0)? Certanly I am very far from 150MB.

    And again less memory than 16MB is not going to change much on a system with 2GIGA or more.

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 16, 2008
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  11. ViVek

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    Hey fax ,thats true ZAFF eats 100-130 MB Ram,thats a lot of,and remember..not all pc have 2 GB ram
     
    ViVek, Aug 19, 2008
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  12. fax

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    Uuuhm.. thanks... not here (may be I have been lucky :) ). At least not with the latest beta versions (earlier versions were indeed eating up to 150MB, including the IE/FF executable)

    If you are helping them in beta testing you may want to report the issue.

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 19, 2008
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  13. ViVek

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    Hey fax can you give me link for ZAFF BETAo_O?i will test it
     
    ViVek, Aug 19, 2008
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  14. ambient_88

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    ambient_88, Aug 19, 2008
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    Here: www.zonealarm.com/beta

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 19, 2008
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