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Title: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: fenican on May 12, 2013, 03:58:22 PM It is essential for safety that you run new coins in a safe sandboxed environment.
I am using this product: http://www.sandboxie.com/ I have no affiliation with sandboxie but thought I would put this up as a public service announcement so people stop having their wallets stolen Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: bengx on May 12, 2013, 04:05:40 PM Mmm good idea. Will check it out. Should I.. run it in a sandbox to make sure nothing funny happens too? :P
Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: WindMaster on May 12, 2013, 04:05:49 PM It is essential for safety that you run new coins in a safe sandboxed environment. I am using this product: http://www.sandboxie.com/ I have no affiliation with sandboxie but thought I would put this up as a public service announcement so people stop having their wallets stolen Keep in mind that Sandboxie does nothing to prevent sandboxed programs from reading any file on your computer that they wish (or at least that are readable by applications on your computer in general), it just restricts where they can *write* files. That means a program running under Sandboxie will be able to read your Bitcoin or Litecoin wallet.dat files all day long. As well as your web browser history, saved passwords, cookies, etc.. Calling it "sandboxed" may be providing a false sense of security.. The correct answer here is to run new coins in a VM (virtual machine) instead that is completely isolated from your PC. VirtualBox is free, if you have nothing better. Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: MrWizard on May 12, 2013, 04:15:59 PM It is essential for safety that you run new coins in a safe sandboxed environment. I am using this product: http://www.sandboxie.com/ I have no affiliation with sandboxie but thought I would put this up as a public service announcement so people stop having their wallets stolen Keep in mind that Sandboxie does nothing to prevent sandboxed programs from reading any file on your computer that they wish (or at least that are readable by applications on your computer in general), it just restricts where they can *write* files. That means a program running under Sandboxie will be able to read your Bitcoin or Litecoin wallet.dat files all day long. As well as your web browser history, saved passwords, cookies, etc.. Calling it "sandboxed" may be providing a false sense of security.. The correct answer here is to run new coins in a VM (virtual machine) instead that is completely isolated from your PC. VirtualBox is free, if you have nothing better. Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: aa on May 12, 2013, 04:34:05 PM .
Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: MrWizard on May 12, 2013, 04:40:04 PM You are running the wallet in the VM. Got it! Thanks.Edit: p.s. The VM could/should be linux. Linux uses less RAM than a Windows install and easier to build the *coind.exe Edit2: I love Mint version of Linux, but my question is; is there a very lightweight distro of Linux to install/build/run coin wallets? Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: cannonfodder on May 12, 2013, 04:52:34 PM Keep in mind that Sandboxie does nothing to prevent sandboxed programs from reading any file on your computer that they wish (or at least that are readable by applications on your computer in general), it just restricts where they can *write* files. That means a program running under Sandboxie will be able to read your Bitcoin or Litecoin wallet.dat files all day long. As well as your web browser history, saved passwords, cookies, etc.. Calling it "sandboxed" may be providing a false sense of security.. The correct answer here is to run new coins in a VM (virtual machine) instead that is completely isolated from your PC. VirtualBox is free, if you have nothing better. Actually you can specify to deny reading of files/folders in sandboxie. Settings/Resource Access/File Access/Blocked Access http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?ResourceAccessSettings#file (http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?ResourceAccessSettings#file) Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: aa on May 12, 2013, 04:53:41 PM .
Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: MrWizard on May 12, 2013, 05:00:17 PM You are running the wallet in the VM. Got it! Thanks.Edit: p.s. The VM could/should be linux. Linux uses less RAM than a Windows install and easier to build the *coind.exe Edit2: I love Mint version of Linux, but my question is; is there a very lightweight distro of Linux to install/build/run coin wallets? Make sure you set the networking (for example, with VirtualBox) to bridge mode, otherwise you won't get a properly accessible IP for mining. That is why I ask for opinions on the lightest weight Linux distro suitable for running wallets. Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: aa on May 12, 2013, 05:04:19 PM .
Title: Re: ATTN Windows Users - run new coins in a Sandbox Post by: nocoin on May 12, 2013, 05:05:50 PM That is why I ask for opinions on the lightest weight Linux distro suitable for running wallets. Debian GNU/Linux. X-server + Openbox window manager = 20 Mb RAM. |