Program Alerts based only on extension

[CB]

I tried to put in the wild card character in program alerts for *.pdf but it didn't work so I assume it's because it was looking for the filename of "*" instead of seeing it as a wildcard. This feature would be great because of the vulnerabilities that often arise around certain file types like pdf's and quicktime files before there are patches available to address the potential malware vulnerabilities. I looked and didn't see this point posted and apologize if it is a duplicate request.

If there is a way to automatically run SB by adding it to filetypes in explorer for PDF's then I would appreciate any info that anyone could provide in that regards so that it starts every time for a particular extension. I tried "Start.exe c:\adobe\reader\acrobat.exe" but it wouldn't accept it.

This would be valuable for this program because I'm not about to open VMware to read a pdf file but I would like to have protection against javascript malware that could be included in such a file without turning off/on pdf scripting when needed.

Thanks

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT AND IT WORKS NICELY! FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO MAY DESIRE THIS FEATURE FOR PROTECTION FROM SUSCEPTIBLE SECURITY RISK EXTENSIONS JUST DO THIS:

IN MY CASE, I WANTED TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM .PDF FILES THAT HAVE/HAD A RISK OF INFECTING SYSTEMS UPON SIMPLY OPENING THEM WITHOUT WARNING. THEREFORE, GO TO TOOLS-FOLDER OPTIONS-FILE TYPES-PDF (in my case). THEN GO TO ADVANCED AND EDIT THE OPEN COMMAND AND PUT THE COMMAND IN THIS FORMAT:

"C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe" "C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit Reader.exe" "%1"

THIS OPENS SANDBOXIE WHICH OPENS THE SPECIFIC APP WHICH OPENS THE SPECIFIC FILE THAT YOU HAVE DOUBLE CLICKED ON.
IF YOU WANT TO OPEN WITHOUT SB THEN JUST RIGHT CLICK ON THE FILE AND USE "OPEN WITH" AND CHOOSE THE APP YOU WANT TO USE.
SWITCHING BACK TO OPENING THE APP WITHOUT SB IS SIMPLY A MATTER OF DELETING THE FIRST SET OF INFO IN QUOTES.

[MitchE323]

Wouldn't that be the same as setting Foxit as a Forced Program?

[SnDPhoenix]

Wouldn't that be the same as setting Foxit as a Forced Program?

Yep, thats correct.

Plus why did you type IN ALL CAPS CB? Hard on the eyes man...

[CB]

Wouldn't that be the same as setting Foxit as a Forced Program?

Not exactly...because if Foxit were able to open other formats like text files, it would only run the PDF files sandboxed rather than all the other extensions it may be able to use. For example, say Word .DOC files were dangerous to run, you could do the above to the .doc extension to sandbox all instances of DOC files opening but if you also used Word to open an RTF file, you wouldn't be "forced" unnecessarily into a sandbox which means you wouldn't have to pull the file out of the sandbox later.


Also. sorry for the all caps. I did that to separate my second reply from my first since I was responding to myself. I thought it might make the separation between the two posts more clear.

[SnDPhoenix]

Not exactly...because if Foxit were able to open other formats like text files, it would only run the PDF files sandboxed rather than all the other extensions it may be able to use. For example, say Word .DOC files were dangerous to run, you could do the above to the .doc extension to sandbox all instances of DOC files opening but if you also used Word to open an RTF file, you wouldn't be "forced" unnecessarily into a sandbox which means you wouldn't have to pull the file out of the sandbox later.

Oh ok, I stand corrected haha.
So with your tip, you force only the extension sandboxed, but not the program reading that extension?
So you could associate php files with Notepad, then set all .php files to be forced sandboxed (just for this example) but Notepad itself wont be forced sandboxed, this way you could still open text files for example, unsandboxed? Sweet!

Ahh the power of Sandboxies customizability/flexibility. Gotta love it!