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Use sandboxie!


bevardis

2012-02-15 10:33:55

With all those new bots, autorune, rarebot etc etc, you can't be sure if it's not malicious code. But with sandboxie, you can make sure you are safe. It isolates the program and you can if wanted delete all it's generated files alltogether.

http://www.sandboxie.com/

RISK

2012-02-15 10:35:38

'Advanced' malware, specifically recent RATs, can tell when you are using something like that and actually infect your real computer. I wouldn't so heavily rely on the 'Safety' of such programs.

bevardis

2012-02-15 10:49:06

From: RISK
'Advanced' malware, specifically recent RATs, can tell when you are using something like that and actually infect your real computer. I wouldn't so heavily rely on the 'Safety' of such programs.


Well, alright. Still works for basic cases

Failure

2012-02-15 11:05:16

Everything is bypass-able so yeah Sandboxie wont always work. Though it gives more protection.

wister1

2012-02-15 14:27:40

there are no safe bot programs… even here there are cases of infected scripts so best way to avoid them is being carefull

Overtime

2012-02-15 14:34:27

From: wister1
there are no safe bot programs… even here there are cases of infected scripts so best way to avoid them is being carefull


Congrats, there was only 1 script that contained malacious code in the past year or two. There isnt really any cases of scripts with malacious code.

When a new user releases a script to the community, its best to look throught the code to see what each function does.

Anyone hacked from a open-source script was just being lazy.

There is a reason why SRL is open source to prevent things like this from happening.


Or in any case its good practice just to review the script and see how the creator made the script and how he did it. Don't be a leecher and just run it as soon as you download it…