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Sandboxie v3.36
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Sandboxie requires neither the disabling nor blocking of functions available to Web sites through the browser. Instead, Sandboxie isolates and quarantines the outcome of whatever the Web site may do to your computer, including the installation of unsolicited software.
There is no trade-off of functionality for security: the Web site can use the full range of active content tools, and if it uses these tools maliciously to install software or otherwise make changes in your computer, then these changes can be easily undone.
[Discovered via Major Geeks]
[475K] [Win2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]
2 Comments
Bill Webb
April 16th, 2009
at 6:15am
I use Sandboxie a great deal, and it works as advertised.
However…
Sandboxes are great, but they ONLY isolate the incoming data. They do nothing to protect you if you move it out of the box. IF the onboard protection has detected and cleaned it, well and good. If, however, the malware has not been removed, you can still infect the PC.
dan
September 26th, 2009
at 10:56pm
So if you install software in Sandboxie and are satisfied that it is clean, do you have to reinstall it outside of Sandboxie ?
Also, how is Sanboxie different than a virtual machine which is typically 100 times bigger in size?