Thanks for the feedback! I’ll be releasing an updated blog post on this topic very soon to cover some changes from this past year.

To answer your question, Sandboxie is a great security product especially for your web browser, so you wouldn’t necessarily have to run some of the other add-ins, such as NoScript. I still would recommend using these add-ins though because it gives the user more control over what they see and what they allow to run on the websites that they visit. To me, this is a very empowering feeling (sort of like learning to change the oil in your vehicle).

Also, as you mentioned, Sandboxie wasn’t available for some operating systems at the time. In situations where you can’t or don’t choose to use Sandboxie, I would definitely use these other add-ins for your browser.

I’m not sure why you had issues using Wot and NoScript at the same time as I’ve not run into this problem. You should just be able to allow the mywot.com domain in NoScript and both work in conjunction. If in doubt though, I would recommend defaulting to use NoScript.

As to Internet Explorer 9, it has some great new features, but still comes out-of-the-box with more security holes. I will talk more about the changes in IE9 in my new upcoming blog post.

Thanks again for giving us feedback and sharing our site with others!

I have gone about 5 years with no security issue with me or my family but in the last 2 months 3 family members and 2 friends have had very bad malware including deleting files. They had updated antivirus. The 3 Family members had MSE updated and don’t intentionaly go to dodgy sites. All run Windows 7 x64 bit and we are behind a good NAT router.

I have now started rebuilding and upgrading computers and came across this site after quite a bit of research what you have to say seems to match what I worked out.

Other than privacy is there any need to run all the Firefox and Chrome addins if you run in Sandboxie as that protects the system and they just now fully support Win 7 64bit in their beta? The problem with the addins is it is quite inefficient and time consuming training the applications if sandboxie keeps me safe.

Can you do an update to this blog as things seem to have changed a lot in the last 12 months but the advice is probably about right?

The addin Wot requires scripting and I installed no script as advised, several attemps to get the page opening by tweaking no script failed so I am not sure if the addin or site http://www.mywot.com is safe anymore. As you say stop if unsure.

I see Internet Explorer is not covered and is generaly considered unsafe but quite a few sites need Internet Explorer. Now version 9 is out what advice and suggestions can you make on this?

I am sending a link to this post and your site to others, thanks very much for explaining these things in such a clear way.