BufferZone free version

Too bad is doesn't support 64bit. I trialed this software a year ago and while I liked the clean interface, I had some serious slowdown issues surfing the net. I would give it another shot if it supported 64.

Ice

 

I purchased a license with BZ when they first came out, and i never received a key or any software from them. I sent several inmates to them, and no one replied. I hope their support is much better now.

 

Hi All

On the basis of this thread I downloaded BufferZone Pro.

My comments are as follows:

1) Its a pale shadow of the former BufferZone AND ON MY MACHINE does not play well with Sandboxie. The whole system froze.

2) BZ is built round IE8. ie you can only surf bank sites with IE8

Sandboxie in this latter respect is much more flexible and equal to all browsers

NOT IMPRESSED

Terry

 

I like the Privacy Zone feature of BZ.
Do you guys know any program that does the same also for FREE?

 

Frankiln,

Old bugger did you drag and drop a picture or did you manage to drag FF into the panel?

 

Dragged and dropped FF that's pinned to the start menu into the BZ storage folder alongside the BZ C drive and on double clicking the FF icon it started via BZ.

XP VM and I've deleted changes to that VM but I'm pretty sure I did something like the above?

 

Brilliant: it automatically sandboxes anaything in the virtual folder

On second thoughts one can also download chrome with IE8 and install it in bufferzone. This feature (installed programs) also works in the free version.

Question: I think to recall that theIE8 icon is dsplayed default, how did you remove that?

Regards Kees

 

FF is set as default browser and I didn't manipulate any icons?

 

Okay,

You have IE8 (or other version) installed?

Thx

 

XP VM, IE 6 which I am about to fire up and check again.

 

OKie dokie. drag and drop the FF start menu icon to inside the BZ C drive, not alongside and FF is starting via BZ.

Now to download and run one of those microjoin exploits and see how it goes, give me 5 to 10 mins.

 

Dragged and dropped the microjoin exploit 8b5aad.exe and it started via BZ with all the other exploits being contained as well.

OK that's enough from me and from my brief testings I will say that Bufferzone is a decent app.

 

It was an answer, not an opinion.

 

Running my brief test with it on Win7 32 machine, it has a problem with a product called Citrix. Which allows you to connect to a remote LAN. The Bufferzone just freezes. I tried using IE8 and FF with the Citrix client in the zone. If I get some time I will post on their site.

@Franklin, thanks for the tip with FF. I use it more frequently than IE.

Ice

 

Ice,

Why would you run Citrix in the zone. Everything you access with Citrix is executing on the lan server, not on your PC. The (lean) browser accessed through citrix problably runs as limited and most system/network managers wil have group policy extra's which harden the browser.

Regards Kees

 

I can't even get my laptop to boot. It hangs past the login for windows. The only thing I have running is OA++. Oh well sounds like a nice program. I'm not willing to give up OA for it though. I'm trying out Sandboxie at the moment.

 

Kees your absolutely correct. However, I'm an old lazy system/programmer and would like everything to work right out of the box. Since my browser session is in the zone, I connect to the url for the citrix server connection. I see BZ trying in vain to secure all the api's but it freezes after about 1min. If I can add an exclusion url to BZ, so it will not put the citrix url into the zone, I would be ok. Maybe the Pro version has that feature. I know other competing similar products can handle Citrix, just not this one.

Ice

 

For WIW,

I'm running Bufferzone Pro with Defensewall with no issues at all.

 

very good protection i just tested againts 20 nasty malware and it was very good at removing them but it doesnt have password protection or USB protection

 

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/usbvaccine/

Free, problem solved.

 

thanks does it require restart to test it?

 

Dont remember,one way to find out though

 

thanks

 

Silly question but where is the virtualized C drive in BZ?

thanks
Ice