https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/ en Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:03:59 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104758 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:03:59 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104758 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104757 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:01:51 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104757 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104756 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:42:28 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104756 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104755 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:49:39 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104755 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104754 AxCrypt, which can encrypt/decrypt files or entire folders. I notice they have a beta version for Windows 7. If you want to encrypt partitions, there's the open-source TrueCrypt. I use my firewall to block transmission of my master email address to anywhere but my web mail account (only works if the data being transferred is unencrypted). Regarding these sandbox/virtualizer type utilities, there are two major issues. If the sandbox is persistent across reboots, there's a significant risk that the sandbox may be infected with malware, since security software typically can't see into virtual environments. So if your browser is in a persistent sandbox, any malware will be confined to the sandbox, but it may still be able to intercept your banking transactions, etc. Whether or not a sandbox is persistent, you're always throwing away some functionality of the OS, such as indexing URLs for searches, due to the isolation of the virtual environment. Of course, a non-persistent sandbox will throw away settings, history, etc., unless there are settings to punch holes in the sandbox, which obviously exposes those items to malware. Those are some of the reasons why I don't find these types of utilities to be particularly useful. Although Returnil made a big deal out of being a virtual environment, it may only be virtualizing disk access, in which case security software would continue to function. I never use Returnil. To prevent the exact same effects as crashing Windows, I would have to set it to start with Windows, reboot, test whatever, turn it off, and reboot again. Plus, it's not persistent across reboots, which interferes with testing software. As for web browsing, if you're paranoid, for sensitive sites like online banking, in IE8 you can open an InPrivate browsing session, which will disable third-party toolbars and extensions. Sticky Password 4 will continue to function. #64, Johnson, it wasn't me who said anything about the performance impact BufferZone. #47, Marcel Wave, to see the effect, you have to run the trojan demo within BufferZone, anything not "protected" by BufferZone will do what it always does (I'm assuming BufferZone actually does what it says). But like I said, the demo is largely meaningless. If it actually had surreptitious Internet access, you wouldn't get a prompt from your security software (you are running decent security software, aren't you?) when you click "Attack Results".]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:03:53 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104754 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104753 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:22:25 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104753 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104752 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:22:13 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104752 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104751 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:12:50 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104751 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104750 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:41:23 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104750 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104749 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:25:56 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone/#comment-104749