More protection options

[Jewels]

Recently discovered Bufferzone which is offers free virtualization to protect your browser, P2P software, and IM clients. Basically it runs all 3 in a sandboxed environment to keep the nasties out. The free versions only protect one application each, so if you routinely run two browsers you need to download and configure a version for each browser. Same goes for the P2P and IM verions also. No utorrent support yet - but hopefully that will show up soon. Check it out here.

[fraggle]

sounds very interesting, must try that
but maybe you can protect your utorrent with a software protector ( for example Themida )



available @ http://www.oreans.com/

[Jewels]

Thanks fraggle- I'll check that out. 

[swytch]

Cool.

In a pinch.. there's also LiveCD Liux distros you can use to isolate your environment.  There is a little overhead due to the fact they run straight from the CD...but its isolated.

[fraggle]

an another way : you'll have to analyse the application, until you're sure its nothing wrong with it,
but that's extremely time-consuming cause of the analysing/monitoring/diffing/etc. processes  and you require also experiences and knowledge with reverse engineering software which could be infected by some malicious piece of code.