Thursday, February 2, 2012

Sandboxie protects your Windows

Today I present you Sandboxie. A Windows application which may save you a headache or two.
Basically, what it does, is runs applications in a closed environment (sandbox), preventing them from making any changes to your system.



That means it is a great app to run your:
-web browser (when visiting questionable websites)
-suspicious applications (cd-key generators for example)
-email client (those supposedly funny emails that threaten you will die if you don't forward it to 10 friends)
-etc . . .

Definately a great application + it keeps your Windows installation nice&tidy!

You can get it HERE
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14 comments:

  1. InfinitePlansFebruary 2, 2012 at 6:36 PM

    That could be very useful, thanks!

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  2. NayNaySIXXFebruary 2, 2012 at 7:28 PM

    Seems quite cool, thanks for the share

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  3. Sub Radar (Mike)February 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM

    Super useful in the age of malicious software.

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  4. DreadnaughtFebruary 2, 2012 at 8:55 PM

    I use sandboxie and the one in my AV I have installed. And a VM ;)

    But yeah sandboxie is great

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  5. dopdavidFebruary 3, 2012 at 1:51 AM

    sandboxie is awesome, i have used it before for several things. its helpful and safe

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  6. ShawFebruary 3, 2012 at 9:55 AM

    can this stop viruses that may be a part of executables?

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  7. neatfitFebruary 3, 2012 at 12:58 PM

    I'd like to see how it stands up against other anti-virus/malware programs before getting this, today I find many apps which are just overhyped :) Any hard evidence, by a chance? Just being cautious.

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  8. Zap McBlowfistFebruary 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM

    yea avast has a sandbox feature this one better?

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  9. darpeeFebruary 3, 2012 at 4:15 PM

    @Shaw,
    yeah, supposedly it can. They will not reach your filesystem.

    @neatflt,
    well, this is not an AV. It is literally helpless and can easily get infected if a virus program is not run within it

    @Zap,
    they are not the same, same concept, but functionality is different.

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  10. HBragerFebruary 3, 2012 at 4:53 PM

    10x for the post. Following :)

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  11. AdamFebruary 3, 2012 at 6:12 PM

    now that's a good app

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  12. AxisFebruary 3, 2012 at 10:00 PM

    Sweet idea, thanks.

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  13. Leon KennedyFebruary 3, 2012 at 10:31 PM

    this seems like one of those ideas that should have been done years ago

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  14. BaurFebruary 4, 2012 at 2:43 AM

    Neat! There's a program built into my kaspersky antivirus just like this

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