What is your security setup these days?

good for you

 

Removed Avira free and replaced it with AVG 2012 pro.Also Rising FW and Sandboxie paid.

 

PCAV is even lighter if your inclined to try it. Not that I found Avira heavy but I did notice a difference on my Netbook.

 

Good setup lucid. You don't need an AV with the setup you have. You are all set IMO.

 

Disabled AppLocker and re-added Sandboxie. For as much security as it provides, AppLocker doesn't sit well with someone like myself who likes to download all sorts of suspicious files. I could either add a temp rule to run them, or turn off AppLocker and run them under Sandboxie. So that's what I've done.

Still running as a standard user. After a few days of doing so, I'm getting used to it and certainly feel safer knowing my admin password is needed for any system changes. Much like running Linux really.

 

Thanks chaotic

That's what I've done. Re-enabled D+ in Clean PC mode with unrecognized files treated as "Restricted".

I'm really liking my setup the way it is now. Doubt I'll mess with it much for awhile.

 

Your welcome. Glad you re-enabled D+. I don't think I will be messing with my setup anytime soon either. I'm enjoying how light my setup is.

 

Thanks for the helpful info. I'm liking this SBIE.

 

You're welcome. Glad SBIE is working out for you.

 

Removed BitDefender QuickScan, WOT and SiteAdvisor. Returned MBAM to on-demand. Installed BitDefender TrafficLight.

 

BTW- I checked with the file check you posted about above to see if Chrome was sandboxed. Nothing really happened when I tried that. Also, even though there is supposed to be a yellow border around the sandboxed applications, nothing shows up for Chrome. It shows for firefox, though, when my pointer touched the outside edge of Firefox. But I check SBIE and it shows Chrome as running in the sandbox. Maybe this all is just a Chrome issue? Everything seems to be going fine otherwise.

BTW II- when my 30 day trial is up, what features go away? I'm particularly interested in being able to have the context menu option to launch apps within SBIE as well as the standard ability to run downloaded apps sandboxed as well as internet facing programs. SBIE is so nice I'm sure I'll go ahead and at least buy a 1 year license anyway.

 

Removing Digsby and Skype manual sandboxes from Comodo. Sticking to Sandboxie for those - leaving Java sandboxes.

EDIT: When I sandbox Chrome every tab gets a border around it btw.

 

30 day trial I could be wrong but to my knowledge there is no 30 day trial, theres only a free version and a paid version of Sandboxie.
Some features/options only available in the paid version.

http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?RegisterSandboxie

 

If "nothing really happened" when you dragged & dropped the finder tool, I don't understand, because something usually happens either way... it either says the selected window is sandboxed or is not sandboxed. If nothing happens, there is an issue that needs to be looked into on the SBIE forum with tzuk. When you state that "I check SBIE and it shows Chrome as running in the sandbox", do you mean you see the sandboxes you have created in the Sandboxie Control dialog?

I concur with LoneWolf that there is no trial. Just a money back guarantee.
The lifetime license gives you the ability to force sandboxes, and to have more than one sandbox, and to use the program on as many computers as you like. I think it is the same for the 1 year license, but I'm not positive.

To reiterate, Chrome and SBIE work fine for me, and for others, so the problems you are having sound like configuration issues or something else.

HTH

 

I'm having one problem with Chrome in Sandboxie: downloads won't go automatically onto desktop, they go first to Documents.

 

I'm running as admin so do I need to check the "drop rights" box in the SBIE configuration? I tried the "check window" tool running programs sandboxed and not sandboxed. Either way, nothing happened, just the same as in your previous picture-
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1931692&postcount=18337

 

Isn't that a function of Chrome "Under the Hood" settings... "Download location" and " Ask where to save each file before downloading"?

 

Drop Rights is is optional, it's up to you if you want to use it. I don't with Chrome because I want it to update itself.

As for the Finder Tool not working, are you clicking on the little square Finder Tool button and dragging it onto the window you wish to check?

 

OK, I was not pulling that little circle icon, but moving the window across by the top bar. That's why it wasn't showing a message. I figure I'll use SBIE when I download new programs and possibly sometimes when I'm running my browser. Does the "drop rights" give more protection when running SBIE occasionally? I'm assuming it would, just not sure of the details. I have UAC on max but run as admin 99% of the time if that makes any difference.

BTW- thanks for the info as I'm pretty lost about this all. But I see the value of SBIE now as previously I thought it would be much more complicated than it is (at least for my needs).

 

I thought when you were saying nothing was happening that might be the case.
So is it saying that Chrome is sandboxed?
Btw, lots of SBIE configuration threads and gems here.

 

TrafficLight standalone gave me a BSOD.
TrafficLight as a Chrome extension is perfect.

 

page did you try this on firefox?

 

No. Just Chrome.

 

No programs that are sandboxed by Sandboxie are also sandboxed by Comodo now. Comodo is sandboxing my media player and some vaio services - Sandboxie has everything else.

 

yes, it says chrome is sandboxed- all is good now, thanks