Curt@invincea wrote:
net user does not login to anything. Try logging in under and admin account. Reboot windows, login under admin, disable Norton firewall.
O.k. I got it now. The net user command was not wrong but afterwards I have to continue with the log in process. (For those [like me] who need a descriptive explanation what to do under Windows 7 in order to get the admin account and to log in there, here is a good video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loU9qJd28hM)
The result (after disabling the Norton firewall):
The first approximately fife times in series it worked indeed: Firefox opened in Sandboxie. But afterwards the situation became the same as when working with the normal user account: sometimes it worked but in most of the attempts it failed.
bo.elam wrote:Pete, why don't you try MSE? [...]
You are well covered by combining Sandboxie with MSE or Windows defender. If I was using an AV, I would be using MSE.
Bo, thanks a lot for your encouraging comment. It's good to hear - especially from you - that MSE would be a sufficient solution.
I would prefer it for several reasons to other AV programs like Avast or AVG (no delay in my short tests, no new software necessary ...). At the moment I still hope for some positive solution with Norton but your recommendation shows me that the next step will probably be a change to MSE.
MDrew wrote:Curt@invincea wrote:Norton seems to have a problem when running as a regular user. Try running Ffx+Sbie+Norton under an admin account and see if your troubles disappear.
I am running XP with one user (me) who is the administrator and FF+SB won't work here.
I think that in XP too (like in Windows 7) this is not the same as logging in under an admin account as meant by Curt.
See for example here:
There are times when you need to install a particular software or hardware driver or you just wanted to edit your setting and windows requires you to be logged in as administrator but even your current login account with administrator privilege doesn't work out, or maybe you just want the administrator account shows up when windows welcome screen appears
(source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myd9N2apHjA)
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows Firewall, Firefox