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I heard Sandboxie is a good one. What is the difference between free and premium?
 
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I use Avast 8 AV and it incorporates auto-sandboxing technology into it protection scheme:

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Avast 8 free.
Hmm....
On avast's website they say that Sandboxing is Pro and up but what is auto sandbox?

Hmm.. I can only tell you that I have the free version and you see the screenshot; yes?

The best way I can describe it in layman's terms is that Avast 8 is monitoring all PC activity; period. The nice thing I like about Avast is you can tell when its working because the animated icon in the system tray starts to spin. Anyway, it not only monitors for malware but it also monitors for any suspicious program activity that cannot be positively identified as malware but appears to be executing in a very suspicious manner. If identified as such, the program will be placed in a sandbox environment until it can be fully analyzed by Avast. Once done, recommendations will follow. This is very useful when a brand new virus surfaces and virus definitions have not been updated to positively identify the malware.
 

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Does anyone remember Esafe Desktop from waaaay back..

This software was so customizable, you could prevent it from streaming your name , address, or any numbers.
It was a control freak's dream come true!
 

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For me, there is no "run in sandbox" option in the context menu.

I'm not sure what you are saying? Please elaborate.

With most programs, you can right click and then see "run in comodo sandbox", "run in avast sandbox", etc. However, when I right click, no run in avast sandbox is there.

Avast makes the decision when to invoke the sandbox. That's why it is called auto-sandbox. IMHO, that is the right way to design that function because most people don't understand how to use a sandbox environment and why it might even be necessary.
 

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I'm not sure what you are saying? Please elaborate.

With most programs, you can right click and then see "run in comodo sandbox", "run in avast sandbox", etc. However, when I right click, no run in avast sandbox is there.

Avast makes the decision when to invoke the sandbox. That's why it is called auto-sandbox. IMHO, that is the right way to design that function because most people don't understand how to use a sandbox environment and why it might even be necessary.
Has the sandbox ever protected you from something?
 

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Well yes and no... I have download a handful of executables and started to either install and/or run them when the sandbox function intervened, did a further analysis, and found no issues. At that point it gave me the option to either run it in sandbox mode or real mode. So, if you think Comodo is the way to go, when do you decide to run something in your manual sandbox mode and what prompted you to do it?
 

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Well yes and no... I have download a handful of executables and started to either install and/or run them when the sandbox function intervened, did a further analysis, and found no issues. At that point it gave me the option to either run it in sandbox mode or real mode. So, if you think Comodo is the way to go, when do you decide to run something in your manual sandbox mode and what prompted you to do it?

So avast sandbox protected you, yes? As for COMODO, I usually run programs that I find shady and do not have much about them in sandbox.
 

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