In case you didn’t already know Sandboxie is a free application that can automatically launch your web browser in a “Sandboxed Environment”. A sandboxed environment is basically a virtual computer inside your computer. Anything that you accidentally download (like a virus or fake antivirus) is caught inside this virtual computer and cannot harm your real computer. [...]
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Avast 5 Pro Sandbox Broken
I was working on my Avast 5 pro pre-video testing when I got this lovely message below. For some reason I can’t launch Internet Explorer 8 sandboxed. The context menu just says “Run Outside the Sandbox” and if I try to add a process manually I get the message above. I’ve tried this on 2 [...]
Identifying Malware Using The Task Manager
Here’s a question that I get a lot of via email, twitter and youtube – “Matt, can you tell me how I can identify malware using the Windows Task Manager?” Sure, but you must understand that using the task manager to identify malware is just one part in the malware identification and removal process. The [...]




