Did you experience that ?
It happens to everyone, occasionally. You’ve found a program in some dark corner of the web,
it looks interesting, but you don’t entirely trust the source – so should you try it?
Did you Try????
Kaspersky Software recognise that you’ll have these doubts from time to time, and Internet
Security 2011 helps out with a feature called Safe Run. Launch this from the program’s Vista/
Windows 7 gadget, or with a right-click on Kaspersky’s system tray icon, and a new desktop will
appear. This looks just like your regular desktop, and you can run programs from it in exactly
the same way, but it’s a sandbox, isolated from your system. Even if you accidentally launch
malware in a Safe Run session, there’s very little chance that it will be able to infect your
system or cause any damage.
A similar typf of Safe Run for Websites opens your default browser (as long as its IE,
Firefox or Chrome) in an isolated window. This then works as a private browser,
so if you log in to your online bank, say, then any cookies or logs will remain in
the Safe Run environment, invisible to malware. And the system works well for surfing any
potentially dangerous sites, as if you run into some forced download (for instance) it’s
again very unlikely to be able to install itself onto your PC.
Safe Run isn’t perfect, and can’t provide a 100% guarantee of safety. It’s going to be very
difficult for malware to break through the protective wall it provides, though, and overall
the system is a welcome addition to Internet Security 2011, a genuinely useful technology that
you won’t find in most competitors.
It happens to everyone, occasionally. You’ve found a program in some dark corner of the web,
it looks interesting, but you don’t entirely trust the source – so should you try it?
Did you Try????
Kaspersky Software recognise that you’ll have these doubts from time to time, and Internet
Security 2011 helps out with a feature called Safe Run. Launch this from the program’s Vista/
Windows 7 gadget, or with a right-click on Kaspersky’s system tray icon, and a new desktop will
appear. This looks just like your regular desktop, and you can run programs from it in exactly
the same way, but it’s a sandbox, isolated from your system. Even if you accidentally launch
malware in a Safe Run session, there’s very little chance that it will be able to infect your
system or cause any damage.
A similar typf of Safe Run for Websites opens your default browser (as long as its IE,
Firefox or Chrome) in an isolated window. This then works as a private browser,
so if you log in to your online bank, say, then any cookies or logs will remain in
the Safe Run environment, invisible to malware. And the system works well for surfing any
potentially dangerous sites, as if you run into some forced download (for instance) it’s
again very unlikely to be able to install itself onto your PC.
Safe Run isn’t perfect, and can’t provide a 100% guarantee of safety. It’s going to be very
difficult for malware to break through the protective wall it provides, though, and overall
the system is a welcome addition to Internet Security 2011, a genuinely useful technology that
you won’t find in most competitors.
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