As I think I recall reading here at the Forum, there were some Windows XP SP3 Users who were wondering if avast 6.0.1000's Sandbox worked on Windows XP because nothing seemed to trigger it. Well, let me say, this morning I clicked on PortableApps.com's Revo Uninstaller Portable and avast 6.0.1000 informed me that that was a potentially dangerous App and prompted me whether I wanted to run it in the Sandbox.
Out of curiosity, I exited and tried from scratch again. Again 6.0.1000 informed me that was a potentially dangerous App. I've used PortableApps.com Apps without problem before. Granted this was the 1st time I had used PortableApps.com's version of Revo Uninstaller Portable. Before, I used to use the Revo Uninstaller Portable version that I got from the Revo Uninstaller site.
So, I don't know if the cause for the avast 6.0.1000 Sandbox prompt is due to:
(1) A genuine problem with the PortableApps.com version of Revo Uninstaller Portable
(2) Or an overreaction by avast 6.0.1000
(3) Or the fact that Revo Uninstaller in general is an App Uninstalling App
Can avast look into this issue to see if PortableApps.com Revo Uninstaller is OK?
I'm going to inform PortableApps.com of this issue as well.
BTW, when something is run in the Sandbox, is it normal that a boat load of Registry Entries take place? Because I uninstalled some Apps this morning. As per my usual routine on uninstalling Apps, I subsequently ran CCleaner. I immediately noticed there were a whole mess of strange, new Registry Entries that I had never seen before. After being perplexed for a couple of seconds, I then figured they were probably the result of the avast Sandbox running Revo Uninstaller in it. Most Registry Entries said something along the lines of "Open with ProGis." I deleted all those strange Registry Entries.