However, Sandboxie, our old friend Sandboxie, is effective in containing CryptoLocker. It's been verified that, if you were to put your email client and your web browser in Sandboxie, if you were to Sandboxie those two things, and we've talked about - we did a podcast on Sandboxie [sN-172]. Anybody could, like, google "Sandboxie Security Now!," I'm sure you'll find it, or go to GRC.com/sn, and I've got a search field that I pay Google handsomely for, and put Sandboxie in, and you'll find the podcast where we explain it. What happens is, if you get a CryptoLocker infection through email or web browsing, and you have employed Sandboxie, then an encrypted copy of your files are created in the sandbox, but nothing gets out of the sandbox. So your original files are all fine. And all you do is empty the sandbox, and CryptoLocker and all of its damage it tried to do is gone.
