It always makes me laugh/sigh when I see various others (not mentioning particular names) banging on about 'Sandboxie/VMs' - just what on earth are they getting up to/what sites are they frequenting (that I'm not) - for the most part, it's just more, crazed paranoia!
I dunno about "banging on" but I have mentioned sandboxes here.
I was only 'exaggerating for effect' - I actually just had one particular person in mind (and not you).
You seem to do a lot of that kind of thing "exaggerating for effect", including as much name calling as possible when someone else has an opposing viewpoint.
As pointed out in this response, perhaps you should look in the mirror
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52518997
"Perhaps you should take a look in the mirror before using tactics like calling someone else condescending, patronizing, ridiculous, ignorant, paranoid, etc. etc. etc.;, and just stick to debating the facts instead.
It's not that anyone seriously 'bangs on' about Sandboxie - but rather, that I've long noticed one person, for quite some years (going at least as far back as 2008) still popping up from time to time with the same personal recommendation.
I'm surprised Jim hasn't taken it upon himself to give them the same 'friendly advice' that he recently offered 'Joe186'... - not that it ever stops him from repeatedly recommending 'Emisoft' via 'newegg.com', ad nausea (slight exaggeration again). ;-)
I also did not appreciate your "It's not your job Jim..." post in another recent thread:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52489573
I look at post patterns from members for a living (and have for 10 years), and the OP of that thread was "out of line", period. I look at a lot of forum posts every day, and take actions against those types of members looking to cause trouble in forums or use the forums for personal gain (as his posting pattern looked like).
Frankly, he's lucky he wasn't banned for more than one reason, including posts that broke the rules as far as Spam is concerned (making multiple posts linking to a site without any new content), and for "trolling", as IMO, the posts being made were designed to "rile up" members, just for fun.
Yep... it's not my job (at dpreview.com) to point out those types of things. But, I was only trying to point out to the member posting that if that kind of posting pattern continues, he's probably end up being banned (as I explained in later posts).
If I were a mod here, I'd have deleted some of the "cross posting" being done, and sent him a note about it. But, since I'm not in a position of authority here, I played it "nice" and made comments about in the latest thread he started (versus just clicking on the Complaint Button) to give the poster a chance to change behavior before someone else complained and he ended up being banned.
As for my posts about Emsisoft, as pointed out multiple times in other posts, newegg.com doesn't even offer Emsisoft products anymore (no listings for them period). I was pointing out that you could find very good deals on very good products if you're a good shopper (versus paying full retail for them), with excellent protection, and indicating what I'm using now (as Emsisoft uses both the BitDefender Engine, as well as it's own engine for malware detection, behavior blocking, etc.
If you look at some of the studies you linked to, it's a very good product for that purpose now (as they've made a lot of improvements to it in newer releases).
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