On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Chris O'Connell <omegah...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Guys, > > My question is sort of cross platform. > > I have an 86 year old user here at my work. He's very bright, but no > matter > how many times I tell him not to click weird email links or strange > websites > he does. The result is a weekly visit into his office to run a 45 minute > sweep for spyware, viruses and malware. > > I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good sandboxing program that may > help eliminate this problem given I can never get this guy to practice safe > computing. > > He runs windows so a Windows sandboxing utility suggestion would be > appreciated. > > A VM solution would work well, assuming it wouldn't insult him. He might choose not to use it in protest. ;-) If you want a more transparent solution, I have heard good things about Sandboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com). There's an episode of Security Now that gives a good independent technical rundown of what it does and doesn't do (http://twit.tv/sn172), although things may have changed a bit since it aired. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss