is VMware unity mode less safe than regular mode?

[harlan4096]

Yes, as I said before, They cut the restrictive Safe Money Shared Folder that was in the past. Safe Money try to protect Your browsing against external attacks but not Your system, so They let the data go from sandboxed browser to system... that's how I understand it (maybe I'm wrong ) so that's why it is only a sandbox for browsers.

 

[shmu26]

so safe money is in good shape, for what it is.
But I don't think it is coded to protect the file system.
I just did a little test by installing utorrent free version on my computer, and then trying the java trick of "pimp my utorrent"
This entails going to a certain website
Pimp my uTorrent : An angular.js application that removes the ads in uTorrent with a single click
and clicking on a button.
I did it from safe money, and the windows notification popped up right away in utorrent, asking whether I allow or not.
So it seems to me that safe money has free access to the file system.

turns out this was not a fair test, because also Sandboxie failed at default settings.