Is Sandboxie good?

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I know that many people really like Sandboxie. Is it really that effective against malware escaping? I am just curious about what you guys think. Thanks for your input.
 
Sandboxie is an excellent piece of software, one can not go wrong adding it to their arsenal.
 
illumination said:
Sandboxie is an excellent piece of software, one can not go wrong adding it to their arsenal.
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So you do not think there are any security holes in it?
 
There are none that im aware of at the time, ages ago, there had been a bypass, those have long since been patched. Personally, i would advise using other security with sandboxie, and you would be just fine.
 
Sandboxie is an excellent piece of Software.It has both free & paid versions and you can also purchase a lifetime license.I agree with illumination that you should also use it alongside other Security Software as this is advised by the author of Sandboxie.

I like the safety that is provided while browsing in the sandbox.
 
I ran a whole year AV-less, using only Sandboxie + Latest Chrome and Adblock+WOT. I browsed a lot of unknown sites with Chrome sandboxed, didn't get any infection ever. :)
That plus Panda USB Vaccine so I don't get infections from USB drives.
 
Here's what the forums say
http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=14781
 
Gnosis said:
Is Sandboxie good?
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Does a bear defecate in the woods?
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MalwareBeater said:
I know that many people really like Sandboxie. Is it really that effective against malware escaping? I am just curious about what you guys think. Thanks for your input.
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It's good, it's not 100% safe, but well nothing can guarantee 100% but if you have a decent AV solution + Sandboxie Browser during surfing you won't really run into any problem's, unless you purposely try something to get your self infected :P.
 
mercurial said:
It's good, it's not 100% safe, but well nothing can guarantee 100% but if you have a decent AV solution + Sandboxie Browser during surfing you won't really run into any problem's, unless you purposely try something to get your self infected :P.
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if you have an AV & sandboxie installed , it will be very difficult to being infected.
 
Bo, is a great person to tell you about Sandboxie. :)

I've used it, but only in the tests I did and boy did it do great? If I had to run it instead of Trend I would.
 
MalwareBeater said:
I know that many people really like Sandboxie. Is it really that effective against malware escaping? I am just curious about what you guys think. Thanks for your input.
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I have the bad habit of executing malware in the Sandbox.... And I have done this more than a few times... I have never seen a malware sample that could escape this virtual environment. I'm not saying it's impossible, but there are like only 0,000001% chances of this happening.
 
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softwareFREEk said:
sandboxie plus AV or Virus??..your choice
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Sometimes we're all too paranoid. In my year of av-less usage I didn't give a crap about malware because I was in control of everything.

Only browsed unknown sites with Sandboxie, had a system image backup made with Acronis True Image and used Panda USB Vaccine.

I used my USB drive on hundreds of pcs and never caught any malware whatsoever. I used to run full scans with MBAM every once in a while but that was just for lolz.

Therefore, your statement "sandboxie plus AV or Virus??..your choice" doesn't make any sense to me or any other advanced users out there that know what they're doing. Many times security solutions have caused problems to me that made me wonder what I would prefer, malware or bugged security solutions.

When antiviruses act like malware causing BSODs and instability and you spend time troubleshooting instead of being productive, that's really an issue.

My point is, there is no simple choice such as "Antivirus or Virus, choose".
 
Most BSODs are due to incompatibility with another apps in the system or some old drivers from another security product.

When i install a new solution on my system, i do it on a clean system (restored from an image or snapshot) that never had any other security apps on it before.
 
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