Sandboxie: How safe it is?

More and more file shared between forum users, and a question arise. "Is the file safe?", "Is it safe to open this file? My antivirus XXX detect the file as YYY"

A forum user might reply that it maybe a false-positive detected by antivirus (and then begin comparing which antivirus is better). or something like this "To be safe, run inside sandboxie or virtual machine."

So today's topic is - How safe is sandboxie?

To begin with, how about some introduction first.

How sandboxie work?

According to main page, it's pretty clear how sandboxie work. Looking at gif images will surely made you understand in less than a second.

Sandboxie runs your program INSIDE isolated space. For example, says a software... let's call it "destroy_my_pc.exe". This software will alter your window's registry, modify file data, delete file on your computer and add some files into your computer. When you run this software using sandboxie, All the changes made by "destroy_my_pc.exe" on your computer will stays inside the sandbox, inside the isolated space.

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MyTime v1.0.60

Good <PUT_YOUR_TIME_HERE> everybody. This is my first post on 2012 :)
Here is my latest project, MyTime and this is the first initial public release - v1.0.60

What is MyTime?
MyTime is a reminder software, a PIM (Personal Information Manager) software and is suitable for home or office use. You can use it to store reminder, tasks, contacts and notes. You can even play music with it as its include music playlist.

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How to start program/game without explorer.exe

Introduction
First of all, this is just a random tutorial.
Sometimes while using your computer, your explorer may unexpectedly crash. This usually caused by explorer extension or something else. For example, winamp shell extension or WinRAR Shell Integration crashed and since it sits on explorer.exe, it will crash its parent process too. When explorer crash, it usually restart itself automatically, but sometimes, it won't start and you need to start it manually either by restarting your computer or using task manager to create a new task.

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GDI DDRAW SDL

I'm going to learn gdi, DirectDraw and sdl... I want to make a dll wrapper that will wrap all DirectDraw call and use SDL instead.

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Latest fsredir in action

It's been a while since I last update this blog.

I want to tell that fsredir drivers almost complete (or already completes) and its now works on Windows XP too :) Of course it will works on windows 7 and windows PE. I haven't tested this driver with windows vista and other windows version because I don't have them but hope this driver works for them. Originally I want to make it support only for WinPE but considering that this driver might be helpful for some user such as lack of free space on C:\ drive and want to put the data on D:\ and still want windows to think that files still on C:\.

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Recover Corrupted User Registry Hive

Everytime I start my computer, my folder settings and folder view reset itself to default. I set it back and do it everyday and after next reboot, it reset folder settings back to default again. After opening Events Viewer, I found out that my user registry corrupted in and registry recovery occured on each boot.

It says,
Event 5, Kernel-General:
{Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): '\??\C:\Users\<username>\ntuser.dat' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost.

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File Redirection using driver (fsredir)

Here is my File Redirection (fsredir) that I write to solve problem with WinPE 3.0
This driver also works on normal windows.

This is my first driver and it is based on Simrep Minifilter Sample by Microsoft.

Download Here: http://www.fileserve.com/file/QCMUp3c
(Tested with windows 7 and WinPE 3.0 only)

Forum post: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12289

What does file redirection do?

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