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mouser:
can someone reply to this post with links to the other posts on the forum where we talked about similar programs.. their names escape me at the moment.

Trustware tm Patent Pending BufferZone virtualization technology provides you with an easy to use solution, it allows you to safely run any software from any source with the confidence that BufferZone will continue to safe keep your PC assets. BufferZone provides you with a complete protection against both known and unknown Viruses, Spyware and Malware on a contiuous basis with no need for any updates.

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Rover:
As requested:
Another intresting option is to use a sandbox tool, for example the free Sandboxie.

Once an app is run trough Sandboxie, all disk & registry access go trough a transient temporary area.
That is, if you run Notepad trough Sandboxie, open a file, modify and save it, that file will results modified for that Notepad instance, but the "real" file (outside the sandbox) will remain intact.

You could also run a virus trough it, without worrying about it infecting/modifying the registry or any files, so it come handy if you need to run some EXE that you don't trust too much.
-Mark0 (September 19, 2005, 06:30 AM)
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Topic: better than using an unistaller? Altiris SVS
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3176.msg22102#msg22102
This is nice if you test many new apps a day. it does not change your system, as all the changes are captured in the virtualization layer. I guess it is safer than writing to the registry etc and then undo the changes *using e.g., your uninstaller 2006). It's kind of like UT3 but clearer (to me).
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mouser:
thanks rover.

also let's add to the collection:
http://greenborder.com/

this also seems to be specialize for internet explorer.

tomos:
has anyone tried runasadmin
that is  RunAsAdmin Explorer Shim

available from Sourceforge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/runasadmin

I tried it myself a while back & had some problems with my machine, but i was pretty sure afterwards they were to do with something else.

As far as I remember everything runs as a user (?- NOT as administrator) unless you dictate otherwise, but think there were various options\settings.

They have a new beta out i might give it a go - just got DSL\broadband\cable whatever you call it & find it a bit scary being simply connected all the time

mouser:
truth be told i'm wary of all of these executable-wrapper protection tools, and prefer using a full virtual machine tool like vwware or virtualpc.

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