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Old 12-15-2011, 01:18 PM
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Once again today I got whacked by this annoying piece of Malware and when I got hit I figured I would share how Sandboxie works. When I got hit, my browser exits, at the same time this screen pops up:

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Next comes all of the pop ups shown in the video earlier in this thread. For kicks I take no action on them, but rather run Malwarebytes and see this

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As you can see, Malwarebytes finds the issue. Notice how the issue is under the directory c:\sandbox. This is where my sandbox exist and where a breach is contained.

At the same time, those annoying popups and live scan windows from the attack are all still there, asking me to run a free scan, etc.

I instead go to the Sandboxie control and delete contents of sandbox and all popups exit and I am back to normal.

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Very cool....