Is there a way to tell...
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someoneinneed
Is there a way to tell...
I was thinking that I might have been attacked through a browser exploit, so I downloaded sandboxie. If I went back to that site, will there be some indication within sandboxie that said site was trying to change my computer?
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Unknown_User_274
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Hello,
when running the browser sandboxed Sandboxie will not tell you if the site tried to change some setting or so,
but if some files are changed you will find them in the sandbox and you will be able to look at it without anything happening to your Browser or permanent change on your computer. My experience with sandboxie shows that its pretty safe to run websites in the sandboxed browser. Some fancy features of some used plugns might not work but for most websites it should not be required anyway.
If some website would try an exploit on your browser and would succeed its most likely it only would be able to access the sandbox instead of other permanent damage/change of anything in other parts of the filesystem.
Best Practices for safe Computing:
- run a up to date Firewall on the PC (if you use XP you can get Comodo Firewall for Free (lifetime licsence) (Personal recommendation and tested as TOP NOCH Firewall against most "to buy" Firewalls)
- run a up to date Antivirus (if you use XP you can get Comodo Antivirus for free (lifetime licsence) (Personal recommendation, its still beta but I wish some final would be as good as this one hehe )
- use a restricted user account for all activities online
- use sandboxie to secure your browser a bit more so nothing can get onto valuable data on your PC which you would not want
- use sandboxie if you want to try out some software and you are not sure what it will do to your computer (software installed in the sandbox can be easier removed without traces)
I hope I could help you out there
Greetings Anubclaw
when running the browser sandboxed Sandboxie will not tell you if the site tried to change some setting or so,
but if some files are changed you will find them in the sandbox and you will be able to look at it without anything happening to your Browser or permanent change on your computer. My experience with sandboxie shows that its pretty safe to run websites in the sandboxed browser. Some fancy features of some used plugns might not work but for most websites it should not be required anyway.
If some website would try an exploit on your browser and would succeed its most likely it only would be able to access the sandbox instead of other permanent damage/change of anything in other parts of the filesystem.
Best Practices for safe Computing:
- run a up to date Firewall on the PC (if you use XP you can get Comodo Firewall for Free (lifetime licsence) (Personal recommendation and tested as TOP NOCH Firewall against most "to buy" Firewalls)
- run a up to date Antivirus (if you use XP you can get Comodo Antivirus for free (lifetime licsence) (Personal recommendation, its still beta but I wish some final would be as good as this one hehe )
- use a restricted user account for all activities online
- use sandboxie to secure your browser a bit more so nothing can get onto valuable data on your PC which you would not want
- use sandboxie if you want to try out some software and you are not sure what it will do to your computer (software installed in the sandbox can be easier removed without traces)
I hope I could help you out there
Greetings Anubclaw
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Guest
Its not difficult to check.
Just start sandboxie, make sure you have cleared out all the sandboxie contents, this means that if you explore the sandboxie contents it will be empty.
Launch your browser sandboxed, you will now see that the browser files that are needed are copied into the sandboxed folder.
Go to the site in question and do what you did in the first place, look in the sandboxie folder again by exploring the contents, see if there are any new files and folders.
If for example you saw a folder suddenly appear called "Windows" with maybe System32 in it with a few files, you would know something smells funny.
Any new files that appear can then be investigated, you can simply type the name of the suspect files into google and see what results appear.
Of course just by default run something like the free Ad-Aware and/or Spybot with your updated anti-virus on your PC to see if they pick up anything.
Hope this helps
Sheldon
Just start sandboxie, make sure you have cleared out all the sandboxie contents, this means that if you explore the sandboxie contents it will be empty.
Launch your browser sandboxed, you will now see that the browser files that are needed are copied into the sandboxed folder.
Go to the site in question and do what you did in the first place, look in the sandboxie folder again by exploring the contents, see if there are any new files and folders.
If for example you saw a folder suddenly appear called "Windows" with maybe System32 in it with a few files, you would know something smells funny.
Any new files that appear can then be investigated, you can simply type the name of the suspect files into google and see what results appear.
Of course just by default run something like the free Ad-Aware and/or Spybot with your updated anti-virus on your PC to see if they pick up anything.
Hope this helps
Sheldon
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Guest
Oh btw, another nice app that is freeware (not in the line of sandboxies functions) is called SecretMaker, you can grab a copy at www.secretmaker.com, its got some neat and innovative functions to help lock your PC down as well.
Cheers
Sheldon
Cheers
Sheldon
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