Free tools defend against malicious Web sites

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One such tool that can protect users from the dangers of the Web is Sandboxie. The Sandboxie utility creates a temporary storage area that acts as a proxy for the actual hard drive. Data that would normally be written to the drive, possibly corrupting or infecting the system, is instead held in the Sandboxie Transient Storage. Sandboxie works with other programs as well, but can be particularly useful in preventing malicious Web sites from doing any permanent damage to the computer and other computers it is linked to.

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Taken from the Eset (Nod32 av) site, Dec 15th blog:

When I went to this specific web page it automatically launched a video! I’m sure glad I run Firefox and IE in SandBoxIE (www.sandboxie.com). If the video exploited a vulnerability I could have had become infected with all kinds of bad programs that could steal my passwords or other information on my computer.


Virtualization technologies, such as SandBoxIE are a great compliment to Anti-virus solutions. Neither stop everything, but virtualization can protect sensitive data, and if something bad was installed it will be gone when I empty the sandbox.

http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/index.php