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Browser sandboxing is thought to be an effective safeguard against web-based attacks. It involves confining the browser to a “sandbox,” an isolated environment with controlled access to the rest of the system. Mozilla recently embraced the technique to improve the way Firefox handles plugin crashes.
Now, Dell’s Kace subsidiary is offering a “virtualized and contained” version of Firefox 3.6 (with Adobe Reader and Flash plugins) called the Secure Browser. According to the company, the Secure Browser provides a safer web experience by limiting all malicious downloads and hostile changes within the sandbox, effectively shielding the operating system from such threats.
Bob Kelly, senior product manager of Dell Kace, revealed that the browser utilizes something called “application virtualization,” a technology that came along with its acquisition of Computers in Motion two years ago. Kace was itself acquired by Dell earlier this year as the latter wanted to expand its system management offerings.
Secure Browser is available for free as a 10MB download from Kace’s website.
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igoka
July 20, 2010 at 7:49am
Yes it is 80 MB instead of 10 . I wonder if autor of this article even tried it I think he just " copy - pasted " from somewhere else. Plus you can just get application called " Sandboxie " which is also free and you can ran any browser isolated.
BigC
July 20, 2010 at 7:29am
Seems kinda like what google chrome/ium is trying to do with its sandbox features, but wheres the cross platform (i.e. Mac OS, linux downloads?)
debvlad
July 19, 2010 at 11:18pm
in the article it stated 10MB download, but when i started it, it showed as 73.6MB. Anyone else experienced this?
tugboat_2
July 19, 2010 at 7:00pm
I notice that on the down load page under system requirements, that it is for 32 bit systems only. Also from reading I get the impression that this is a "commercial" app.
Does this mean that the free download is a crippled version that is going to cost and arm and a leg? I ask as, when I clicked on the buy now link it goes to a page to arrange getting in contact with them to discuss price. As in, maybe you won't like what you see so they want to give the sales pitch 1st??? Like, hey if you buy this gizmo for a $1000 you will save $999.99 a month in the 1st year.
If you can't dazzel em with Brilliance, baffle em with bull puckey. (From the tome; Murphy's Law, Annex 5, Smooth Recoveries)
gothliciouz
July 19, 2010 at 5:51pm
excellent!... now i can safely experiment with those friendly adult websites without worrying for strange disease
Metonymy
July 19, 2010 at 4:56pm
Just because everyone in the world takes javascript for granted, that doesn't mean that it was ever a good idea. Kind of like SUVs and bottled water.
Why doesn't mozilla just implement something similar to noscript as a default, pre-activated feature?
DogPatch1149
July 19, 2010 at 4:00pm
Wasn't Altiris doing application virtualization three years ago with SVS? Whatever happened to that? This sounds like very much the same thing.
