Sandboxie Acquired by Invincea

Hey XenMan, those PUPS probably came along when you installed another program. You have to be carefull when you click next during installations.

Anyway, when you are a full time Sandboxie user, when you install programs out of the sandbox, its the time when security is at its lowest point. I pretty muck lock down my computers and dont install nothing new but if and when I do, I ponder about it and I am extremely careful when I run that installer unsandboxed.

Bo

 

i understand, thank you.

concerning PUP - thats my understanding when using a sandbox.
but there exist more options:
- innounp
- InnoExtractor
- UniExtract
and there possible result can be scanned with eg malwarebytes.

 

I just didn’t want to imply that I only used Sandboxie, but could quite easily.

PUPs come from all my careless actions installing unknown stuff.

If I installed something real bad, I would casually restore the drive. My time is now more precious so I have a few other defences, but I’m also very high risk of late, so it is also common sense.

Seriously why are people so scared of Malware? It is rare, easily fixed and you almost have to look for it through high risk activity.

 

Bingo

 

Yes, of course for consumers a lifetime license is the best deal, but I'm afraid they will stop development if it doesn't make enough money. About adding features, I know what you mean, but I was thinking they could perhaps test new technologies for their corporate product in a Sandboxie Pro version. On the other hand, I believe they are already using HitmanPro.Alert for this. But anyway, auto-sandboxing and a smoother looking GUI would be nice.

 

No reasonable CEO will ever deploy a lifetime license scheme (on long term) until he does charity

 

Hi,
Just curiosity question:
Is this the Firefox Tracking Protection Disconnect.me Block Lists?

Do I need Direct Access for Disconnect.me protection to work or just to update lists?
When does Disconnect.me Block Lists update?
Thanks

 

The blocklist file is where Firefox saves a list of bad extensions. I believe the tracking database is downloaded in the safebrowsing folder (AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxx.default\safebrowsing), same folder where phishing database is downloaded to. If you look in there, you ll see files with "track" as part of their name.

You allow access for the update to be applied out of the sandbox. You dont allow access for the protection to work or for the updating process to work, you allow it so the update bypasses sandboxing and goes straight to the real file.

Firefox updates safebrowsing, phishing and my guess is it does also for tracking, once a day.

You dont need to allow access to safebrowsing folder if you are already applying the setting to allow access to Firefox phishing database in Sandbox settings.

Bo

 

Okay, tracking database is with safebrowsing folder.

I read "Firefox 63, due out in October 2018, will turn on tracking protection by default and also add protection against browser fingerprinting and in-browser cryptomining scripts."
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/firefox-will-soon-protect-you-from-websites-that-mine-cryptocurrency-on-your-computer/
So, I got curious.
Thanks
I don't use tracking protection nor allow access to Firefox phishing database (at this time).
Edit: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/05/26/firefox-63-tracking-protection-with-miner-and-fingerprinting-protection/

 

the inside disconnect list is part of the anti-cc defense - safelist too. it works all together.
ublock can replace and improve it, but for new or "traditional" users this is vital.

 

Yeah, I was just curious whether I'd want/need to add sandboxie hole.
Maybe, too soon to know and off topic here.
Thanks

 

You misunderstood me, I actually do NOT want them to bring back the lifetime license, because that would almost certainly mean the dead of Sandboxie. BTW, can you guys confirm that the latest 1Password doesn't run inside the sandbox? I must say it's a bit annoying, perhaps SBIE is being a bit too restrictive.

https://1password.com/downloads/

 

strange (since yesterday) slow page loads with Firefox 60.0.1 x64 and 5.25.4
tried new Firefox default profile
tried new default sandbox
tried multi-process disabled
tried security.sandbox 0
tried overwrite 5.25.4
Firefox runs okay outside sandbox.

Edit: must be gremlins.... after I posted "strange slow".... Firefox is okay now, sandbox'd.

 

The only thing I can give you ....as a guess is that perhaps there was an antivirus update that affected Firefox under Sandboxie, and today, another update cleared the issue. This could be so if at no time Firefox ran with issues out of the sandbox.

Bo

 

I also had an issue yesterday (after the update to the latest FF on my Win 10 pc) - basically FF was unusable and I switched to chrome for the day. FF was not loading or so slowly that it appeared to hang. Even closing the browser took ages and I had to kill the process once. As I was working in a different office, I did not want to spend too much time trying to work out what happened but will check next week if the issue has gone away for me too. On my Win 7 I don't have any issues.

 

Firefox sandbox'd feels heavy (sometimes) ... memory leak? -- ISP throttling?

Edit: running Firefox sandbox'd and Firefox not sandbox'd, at same time.
Pages load faster not sandbox'd.
Just me.

 

are you using win 10 ?

 

W10 Home 1709
Probably, just me. My drive Health Status = Caution.
Although, Firefox pages do load faster not sandbox'd.

 

While I still find that browsers initially open a bit slower sandboxed than otherwise, I am happy to report that the issue on my Win 10 mentioned above has gone away after updating to SB 5.24.4

 

Thanks. I've reluctantly moved to Chrome (for now).

 

as long no one knows your system this is much ado about nothing

 

On my Win 8 system I also see that FF Quantum is not working properly, it takes quite some time to load websites.

The point is to test new versions before installing them on the real system. Like I said, I use SBIE both as an anti-exploit and software testing tool. But I do think that SBIE is perhaps a bit too restrictive and that's why more and more apps will not work when running sandboxed.

 

...for me it's much ado about something.
Regards w Respect