Surf the Net safely from a sandbox

Hi all,

Here's a Net security tip. According to my search nobody has mentioned it here in the forums.

You can surf the Web and isolate your browser from the world by surfing from a "sandbox" . This means that nobody from the outside can change anything in your system.

Reviewers mention two top products :
Sandboxie and Greenborder. I tried the latter first. My IE crawled.. Uninstalled it and tried Sandboxie. No performance issues. The only issue I have is that it doesn't work with Cookie Pal. Instead. Windows' cookies alert comes up.
It's worth the inconvenience.
Try it and see for yourself. It’s free.

 

I wouldn't use either. I'd download vmware and a Linux image, and surf in that if you're worried. Those "sandboxes" aren't necessarily everything they claim to be (could contain spyware or keyloggers themselves... do you know for sure?), and the actual mechanism they use... it claims to sandbox disk write operations. I don't necessarily trust that, but it's possible that they do it. Either way... realize it intercepts ALL changes to a disk. So if you want to download something? Do that outside the sandbox. Save a bookmark? It's gone.

First and foremost for secure browsing, just say "no" to Internet Explorer.

 

Thanks. Pitabred. I'll check on vmware and a Linux image - right now I've no idea what they are.
As to IE - FF isn't immune either.
What problems can the sandbox cause?
Oh, about your nick. I love pita bread. My fav is pita with humus.

 

FireFox doesn't run things by default. ActiveX is a joke in it's security. Many IE flaws include access to the computer itself. No Firefox flaw has done so. Insofar as design is concerned, Firefox is much better than IE, no if's, and's or but's. I r a programmer and a Linux dork, and do it for a living. I promise, I know this stuff firsthand It's not just parroting what I've heard from other people.

The sandbox can cause problems simply because it's another program, and it depends on who wrote it, and what their agenda is. You're giving the authors of the program access to your files by putting it on your system, and you're almost certainly going to be running it with browsers. Seems a very ripe location to install a keylogger to me. A trojan horse. An application that seems legit (and it is to some extent), but still has a nefarious purpose.

And I like my nick, too Had it since high school. It's shortened to Pita a lot of the time. And yes, the acronym is quite often apt as well.