Tutorial Sandboxie Plus Quick Start.
- Thread starter colobancuz
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- Oct 28, 2019
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if it's online, it's online. whatever you do might be sent outside, at least everything you do inside the box might get outside. the mimimum i'd recommend is, to have absolutely nothing else running in the background when playing online. next, find out exactly which IP and port the game requires for the online functions, before even starting to play, and set up the firewall to block everything, first, and then allow only the required IP and port for only this game. it's still a risk.
allowing something to connect to the internet is generally a compromise between safety and usability. if it's a infected game, some of the content from inside the game could be sent outside. most online games are using a certain IP (that's where the game server should be) and specific ports.
personally, i'm using a dedicated computer for the few online games i sometimes run, means that computer contains only the OS, drivers, AV, Firewall, box, and this is cloned from a spare pre-installed HD (classic HDDs are cheap). if a game screws up, i can just do another clone. if a game tries some SUS, same, i can just wipe and re-clone. only info i might lose are some game logins. the stuff on those accounts, welp just pixels, done with expendable emails, nothing of value lost.
Well... That depends... I found number of Unity AVN/games works just fine in Sandboxie Plus. There were a few that didnt quite running in Sandboxie Plus. There are only few that needed "Internet access", which I ended up putting those in the "shelf" to check down the road to run on old/spare system.
Have a great day and be safe...
