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- Use DropMyRights to protect systems from admin users
- Providing only the local system access necessary for business users to perform their jobs should be the ultimate goal. But until that time, we can drop their rights when appropriate. by Tom Olzak
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Admin User, Sandbox, DropMyRights, Sandboxie, Web Browsers, Internet, Tom Olzak
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Minimize risk when downloading from the Internet
- Getting malware installed on a computer is easy enough without doing it intentionally. Learn one approach that will reduce the risk when downloading from the Internet. by Michael Kassner
- Tags: Program, Malware, Sandboxie, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Internet, Scanners, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Use free sandboxing software to isolate risky behavior
- Sandboxie creates an isolated operating environment which prohibits applications from directly writing to anything on local or mapped drives unless I want it to. by Tom Olzak
- Tags: Application, Sandbox, Sandboxie, Figure 5 Quick Recovery Folder, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Tom Olzak
- Blog posts 2008-12-15
Additional Resources
- Sandboxie 3.38 (Windows)
- When you browse the Web, changes occur to your computer system. Some harmless, like recording the addresses of Web sites you have visited, so the browser can help you complete a Web address that you type in. Some more harmful, like the unsolicited installation of malware. When you use Sandboxie...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, Tzuk, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-05-28
- Use free sandboxing software to isolate risky behavior
- Good toolI've been using SandBoxie for 4 years now. Besides the pdf issue easily resolved there's one catch for notebook users. More often than not the touch pad will not be able to scroll or it will not work at all. Also there appears to not be a good solution...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web browsers, SafeSpace, Sandboxie, software
- Discussion threads 2008-12-15
- User wants porn
- Got a home user, using his personal computer from his house, using his personal internet connection. No kids, so that is not a concern either.Nothing he is using or doing is work related, just a "case of beer" side job.The user wants to "safely surf porn". This puts...
- Tags: browser, jd-quick (formerly clyde), jdclyde, network, secure system, security, surf porn, trojan horse, Zone, Zone Suite
- Discussion threads 2006-09-15
- Kraken: The biggest, baddest botnet yet
- Responsabilty..?It's not going to surprise me when another flaw in Microsofts code is found to be responsable for this. I still can't get over a SQL exploit that created auto hacking Botnest that not only exploited the fact the MSQL let the software run with specifying an Administrators password,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Botnets, Internet, Kraken, botnet, computer, industry
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- WLanMon.exe
- I need help in. WHile using a airlink wireless USB adapter I've run across an issue that will not allow me to use this adapter because it refers to two versions of adapter in the device manager, one has red x and the other is okay, however I keep...
- Tags: pcmd22@..., installer, adapter, registry, Sandboxie
- Discussion threads 2009-02-06
- logon rejected with regular boot; accepted in safe mode!
- Very old laptop: P2,XP pro, 256 MB RamFF 1.5.011.My password is no longer acceptedduring regular logon. I get a notice saying that the domain "jones" isn't available. When I attempt the same log on in safe mode, there is no domain problem and I can log on. I...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, dancingbob5678@..., safe mode, Spybot S, SpySheriff
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- What's in your desktop support toolbox?
- Uberuseful itemEBCD...Emergency boot CD (admin password blanking disk.This had a huge impact when we were migrating from one organization's domain to our own. The old domain admins would not give us the local admin passwords, so unjoining their domain and joining our own became a bit difficult without...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Network technology, desktop, Ophcrack, tool, cable, Winternals
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Mandriva One running on VirtualBox
- ThanksThanks for trying Mandriva, and I hope it continues to go as smoothly :). If you have any questions or problems, do come check out the official forums at http://forum.mandriva.com/ .Adam WilliamsonMandrivaAlmost impossible to corrupt host systemSelena, it's darn near impossible for a virtual machine (a 'guest') to cause a...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, Operating systems, virtualization software, virtual machine, Linux, innotek VirtualBox, Mandriva
- Discussion threads 2008-08-16
- Minimize risk when downloading from the Internet
- Crossed fingersWith respect to both Sandboxie and MBAM.Check the author's siteIf possible, check the original author's or vendor's site to get a feel for the program's source, even if you find the download at a trusted download site. This might also give you a better idea of what the program...
- Tags: Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- anti spyware
- is BOClean from comodo and super antispywarefreeware are sufficient from spyware protection or else may also be usedThey are pretty good, but nothing is perfectRunning things like NoScript under Firefox, running your browser in SandBoxie, or running a Linux LIVE CD distro are probably more effective.
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Web browsers, SECURITY, anti-spyware
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- Default IE Page changing by itself continously
- I have a strange phenomena on 4-5 pcs on network. 2 things happen1. The default homepage of IE goes to http://talk2namratha.googlepages.com 2. This IE window popsup every few minutes also.Yes, have done many checks ..using spyare scanning, registry checks,,manually changing home page in registry.. tried to make the user...
- Tags: Web browsers, Spyware, Web site development, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- Bugs, bots and Google
- It recently occurred to me while reading a forum post in an account I will never use again, that there's a serious problem with high-technology.Before I discuss the issue at hand, let me say, I have developed a strong par_ano_ia in recent months. I find myself looking anxiously around...
- Tags: wigglyworm, Google Inc., bot
- Discussion threads 2009-05-23
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