Primestone
Feb 17, 2008, 09:36 AM
I have been a user of Sandboxie for about a month now, and I have to say it's a great program. I could attempt to explain it, but I'll just give you the analogy from their site. =]
Think of your PC as a piece of paper. Every program you run writes on the paper. When you run your browser, it writes on the paper about every site you visited. And any malware you come across will usually try to write itself into the paper.
Traditional privacy and anti-malware software try to locate and erase any writings they think you wouldn't want on the paper. Most of the times they get it right. But first the makers of these solutions must teach the solution what to look for on the paper, and also how to erase it safely.
On the other hand, the Sandboxie sandbox works like a transparency layer placed over the paper. Programs write on the transparency layer and to them it looks like the real paper. When you delete the sandbox, it's like removing the transparency layer, the unchanged, real paper is revealed.
http://www.sandboxie.com/img/PaperAnimation.gif
You can run a sandboxed Internet Explorer and if a site with an ActiveX program installs a virus or spyware, it'll be gone just by closing the sandboxed browser. You can also use it for Outlook, download it all unsandboxed.. Then you can close it and view it in a sandbox, so you won't be worried. =].
Edit: Forgot to put in the site!
http://www.sandboxie.com <- ^_^
Think of your PC as a piece of paper. Every program you run writes on the paper. When you run your browser, it writes on the paper about every site you visited. And any malware you come across will usually try to write itself into the paper.
Traditional privacy and anti-malware software try to locate and erase any writings they think you wouldn't want on the paper. Most of the times they get it right. But first the makers of these solutions must teach the solution what to look for on the paper, and also how to erase it safely.
On the other hand, the Sandboxie sandbox works like a transparency layer placed over the paper. Programs write on the transparency layer and to them it looks like the real paper. When you delete the sandbox, it's like removing the transparency layer, the unchanged, real paper is revealed.
http://www.sandboxie.com/img/PaperAnimation.gif
You can run a sandboxed Internet Explorer and if a site with an ActiveX program installs a virus or spyware, it'll be gone just by closing the sandboxed browser. You can also use it for Outlook, download it all unsandboxed.. Then you can close it and view it in a sandbox, so you won't be worried. =].
Edit: Forgot to put in the site!
http://www.sandboxie.com <- ^_^