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Green Border Giveaway
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
Just found another time limited offer that you might want to quickly take advantage of this weekend.
I guess I should clarify – it is “offered free to the first 10,000 who download” since June 26th. It’s worth a try, though. The product is from a company called GreenBorder that recently got some major press from Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal and other publications like PC Magazine.
Green Border sets up a virtual machine just to run Internet Explorer. It’s $50 per year. Once you quit the browser, this virtual session simply disappears, along with any bad stuff that has collected within it. Your files and settings remain unaffected. You can even purge the bad stuff from the virtual environment at any time by clicking on a command called Clean and Reset GreenBorder. There is no need for updates or signature file downloads.
Inside a GreenBorder Pro session, you might get infected with a “browser hijacker,” a spyware program that permanently changes your browser’s home page and search page to sites operated by sleazy companies. But once you quit the browser, or click on Clean and Reset, the hijacking effects disappear.
To show it’s protecting you, GreenBorder Pro places a literal green border around the browser. GreenBorder Pro is an equal-opportunity guardian—it cordons off all activity from Web-based programs without worrying about exactly what the individual programs are. Thus it doesn’t need the kind of signature updates that a standard antispyware or antivirus utility does.
Probably 95% of SDR listeners are running Firefox - and, this isn’t new technology. Large companies have used GreenBorder Enterprise for years. This version brings the same level of protection to consumers and small businesses, but leaves out the centralized administration and other enterprise-level features. If you are working in a small business environment or have family members who insist on using IE – it may be worth the effort to check and see if there are any free download copies left. It’s pretty hefty – and needs 100MB of disk space – but if you are still using IE 6.0, it sounds like a good service to try out.
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