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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: bri on February 22, 2010, 02:17:16 AM
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since using ais 5 and sandboxing ie and ff,when i open favorites and try to click on some of them i get a popup box saying the shortcut is invalid.this happens with both ie and ff.if i right click and run out of sand box it still says invalid shortcut.i have to delete the shortcut in favs and add it again but after awhile it does the same thing?is this a known issue with the sandboxing part of ais?thanks
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Hi bri :)
I use the sandbox for Firefox and Opera, and never had your problem. Maybe you can pm Peter Kurtin (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?action=profile;u=382) ( the Sandbox developer ) so that he is aware of it ???
Greetz, Red.
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thanks rednose i pm him
by the way i use windows 64 bit with avast internet security only
its something with the sandbox because its happening with both my win 7 64 bit and win vista 32 bit.for now ill not run the browsers in the sandboxed because its very annoying.
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i forgot to mention that i use rollback rx on both my machines, anybody using ais and rollback rx with always run ie and ff sanboxed?i bought ais because of the features it has and to not be able to use sandbox feature fully is not good(sucks) and very annoying.i didnt edit my previous post with this because it would still be buried under a ton of other post's and no one would see it.
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bri, what do you mean by "when I open favorites"? Is it "Favorites" folder in Start menu, Bookmarks in FF browser or "desktop icon"? I've tried all methods (Win7), but all worked okay here. I'll try rollback rx as you mentioned.
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when i set ie and ff to always run sandboxed this happens.i open one of the browsers and on the menu bar i click favorites and click on a link(example avast forum)i get a popup box saying shortcut or target is invalid?this happens all the time and to add that shortcut back to my favorites i must delete it and re enter it.when i dont set my browsers to auto run sandboxed this doesnt happen only when i set them to always run sandboxed.
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pk did you get to test this with rollback?anyhow i tried it on one of my machines with rollback uninstalled and it does the same thing.i cant belive im the only one having this problem on both my win 7 64 and vista 32 machines.having had to turn off the sandbox part of avast(problem)on my families pc it was infected(rogue) the other day when my wife was on it,this is the reason i bought ais to use the sandbox part when the signatures dont catch it and the behavior blocker i dont even think works.for now ill uninstall ais and use something else until i figure out why.
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bri, this bug was already fixed - there was a problem with NTFS streams processing in the sandbox module.
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@ pk: off topic here, can we expect a fix (new build) for the current sandboxing issue in 5.0.454? as you know self defense module must be disabled at the moment for virtualization to work...
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Logos: yep, already fixed...
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Logos: yep, already fixed...
cool, thanks ;)
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Peter, can we expect a new build today ???
Greetz, Red.
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This falls within vlk's competence, so it's entirely up to him...
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Ok, thank you :)
Greetz, Red.
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are you saying its fixed in the pre release 454 build?
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No, it was fixed in avast's source code and it'll be included in next update.
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ok thanks,appreciate the help.ill be looking forward to the next update.
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was this issue fixed yet because in 5.0.462 i still had the problem?
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Yes, it was fixed in 492. If I remember right, the problem was with invalid NTFS streams name handling.
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good to hear thanks pk
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pk im using the prerelease 5.0.533 build of ais and the favs thing is happening again on both vista 32 and win 7 64 bit systems?
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bri, I wasn't able to simulate this problem again (Win7 + IE8/FF). The previous bug was caused by invalid NTFS streams filename parsing so I'm quite surprised you still have this problem... Do you get the same popup error as you mentioned in the first posts?
To simulate the problem, I tried: - create some favs (in IE8/FF), run sandboxed IE8/FF, open those favs, open them in new tabs, create new favs; all worked ok, they haven't been corrupted; should be these tests enough to notice the problem? I'll try that tomorrow with Vista32.
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yup the same thing as in first post.the only thing different is i have ie and ff set to always run sandboxed.it doesnt happen all the time,it happened 3 times today on win 64 bit using ie8 and all 3 times i tried to click on avast forum fav in ie?2 times today it happened on vista 32 bit also clicking on avast forum fav in ie8.ive yet to see it on ff but ill keep testing and let ya know.i attached a screenshot showing what the avast forum looks like in my favs(the one i use to click on)and a text showing the link,maybe it'll help
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yup the same thing as in first post.the only thing different is i have ie and ff set to always run sandboxed.it doesnt happen all the time,it happened 3 times today on win 64 bit using ie8 and all 3 times i tried to click on avast forum fav in ie?2 times today it happened on vista 32 bit also clicking on avast forum fav in ie8.ive yet to see it on ff but ill keep testing and let ya know.i attached a screenshot showing what the avast forum looks like in my favs(the one i use to click on)and a text showing the link,maybe it'll help
its kinda weird this time as it is only happening with the avast forum fav and not my other favs.also when i close ie8 and reopen i can use the link once or twice before getting that message(popup).as of now its only happening in ie8 not ff.
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pk installed ais 5.0.545 and same problem happening on both my computers 64 and 32 bit but only with ie.if it was one of my computers i would say that its something with my computers but both.theres some kind of problem i believe with avast sandbox,rollback and ie since using this config is the only time it happens.hopefully down the line in the future you can investigate this or something.if you need anymore info or whatever let me know,thanks bri