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Originally Posted by Wittmann
An additional benefit to me as a Windows XP user is that I have no use for those incessant MS updates that perpetually clogged up my disk space with 1 GB of rubbish. Sandboxie takes care of all the security I have ever needed.
I stopped MS automatic updates bombarding my XP in August 2013 and have never looked back. MS`s public execution of XP on 8 April 2014 meant absolutely nothing to me.
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If you believe this then you have little or no understanding of PC security whatsoever.
Sandboxie provides absolutely no security against most of the issues Windows Update fixes and I find it both ironic and hypocritical that their slogan is "Trust no program" yet they're expecting you to trust
it.
And not only is it useless with anything other than web browsing in a glorified incognito mode, the claim of confining threats to the sandbox environment and restricting everything to a virtual environment is a load of rubbish. In a few minutes mucking around with it I've managed to create persistent drive mappings outside the sandbox from inside the 'protected' browser, share the PC's entire hard drive to the world, as well as access any and all personal data of the user running it. And I'm not even a hacker.
Any web browser's built-in sandboxing architecture is far better than this already. Snake oil IMO.