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Solve : Could This Be The End of Computer Viruses?? |
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Answer» Just wondering if anyone has read about this. ...The vSentry software gives users a disposable virtual computer for EVERY task that is undertaken on a Windows PC. This virtual computer will act as a barrier in between the computer system and the virus. The virus or malware ESSENTIALLY attacks the barrier instead of the PC and when the file is closed the virtual computer also CLOSES... First- how does this protect the PC, at all? "Damage" usually is the RESULT of a piece of malware writing files and installing services and whatnot. So the question is, how does this sandboxing know when the software should actually be allowed to write to the disk, and when it should be "sandboxed"? From what I can gather (which is to say guess, because there is very little about this particular software anywhere) I would guess that programs can read data from the disk, but writes are stored elsewhere. Of course the problem with this "revolutionary" new technology is it's not revolutionary at all, and is already done by other software such as sandboxIE. Another problem is that if all programs are "isolated", how does the user save documents from those programs, if desired or necessary? For example, Word, Excel, or what-have-you documents. Some might say "ahh, then you "whitelist" that program, so it's not sandboxed. But then what if that program supports plugin software- or macros- or anything of that sort. That means the infection vector is still there. This is only really effective when the "sandboxing" is done with browsers, and there are other software packages that do this already. I don't UNDERSTAND half of it as you know, but i don't think they will ever make a program that will stop viruses etc 100%So it's basically another Sandboxie. That's not a perfect process either. |
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