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Originally Posted by Wittmann

IMPORTANT - Sandboxie encloses the entire browser, plus any other programs or browsers you have on your PC by individual selection, even Email.

The sandboxes that other programs have are contained within either the program or within the browser.

No comparison whatsoever.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Wrong. Advanced antivirus programs sandbox Windows itself.

Originally Posted by Stuart
It also appears to offer little or no protection against attacks where a virus infects another machine on the network, then starts scanning that network for other machines it can infect. All they need is a network share with bad security and the ability to create processes on a remote machine. Both things that SandboxIE probably will not protect against, and therefore would be unable to sandbox the virus.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

This is a very good point that I missed. Even if Sandboxie's protection of your own machine were 100% perfect, allowing web browsing through it by nature depends on allowing applications to send and receive network data. In addition to your example, they could also use remote code execution exploits against other machines on your network, not necessarily even PCs. They could infect your phones, tablets, consoles, and so forth, all from within the sandbox. And any virus out to steal your data could easily do so, and send that data back to it's creator, well before you close down the sandbox. Sandboxie could potentially block that by blocking local network access, but that's not it's job, that's the job of a firewall or IDS.

Originally Posted by Wittmann View Post
To tax your brain even further, do you know why a parachutist wears a reserve ?
Probably not but I will explain - to use in case the main parachute malfunctions.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Except in your case you've claimed the main parachute is a waste of time and haven't worn it for 3 years.

Some questions to be answered.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Hah! I've had a serious infection. Of influenza. But yeah, there's a logical fallacy about claiming you're safe against something simply because it hasn't happened yet - I can't name it though. But to illustrate, I've never died yet. Does that mean I'm 100% safe against ever dying?

Course not, but I trust that when you finally depart to meet your maker you'll be buried in a sandbox.