SandBoxie
SandBoxie
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Isolates and quarantines the outcome of whatever a Web site may do to your pc, like 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.
Sandboxie has originally been designed to increase the security of browsing with Internet Explorer, however it is just as effective with any other browser, and in fact, any other program. Sandboxie wraps a protection layer around the programs it supervises. It is this layer that intercepts and isolates any changes the programs make to the computer. And this layer is impartial to the specific program it wraps.
Sandboxie was designed as an application that will allow you isolates and quarantines website.
When you browse the web, changes occur to your computer system. Most of the time these changes are harmless, like recording the addresses of web sites you have visited (and when), so the browser can help you complete a web address that you type in. Whether these changes are harmless or harmful, they do in fact happen to your computer system.
When you use Sandboxie to protect your browsing session, it catches all these changes just as the browser is about to apply them into your computer system. Sandboxie does record these changes on behalf of the browser, but it records them in a special isolated folder, called the sandbox.
The benefit of having a sandbox is that it ensures your ability to get rid of all changes done by the browser, simply by deleting the sandbox folder.
Another useful feature of Sandboxie is the ability to terminate all sandboxed programs at once. As some web sites tend to pop up three new browser windows for each one you close, you can have Sandboxie close all of them with a click of a button.
What's New:
- New Getting Started short tutorial appears on first use. Can be invoked manually from the Help menu.
- Sandboxie Control application now natively supports high DPI display modes.
- Fixed a couple of usability issues with the Sandboxie Start Menu when the interface language is not English.
- Fixed an issue where SBIE2218 could appear in some "Run as administrator" elevation scenarios. Enabled Address Space Layout Randomization in all Sandboxie components.
- Fixed an issue with opening web links or multimedia files using a forced program, when the DefaultBox sandbox has been removed.
- Fixed a problem where Sandboxie would not work correctly if Windows compatibility setting are selected for Sandboxie program shortcuts.
- The Lingering Programs mechanism will not stop programs set as a linger program, if the program in question is showing a window.
- Fixed an issue with accessing network
- Support for Windows 8 final RTM build (number 9200). Sandboxie is not compatible with earlier builds of Windows 8.
- Improved compatibility with avast! Antivirus, BitVise SSH Client, CafeAgent, EMET v3, Logitech G15 keyboard, UltraMon.
Note: Sandboxie is shareware software but you are downloading the free version. The free version is missing a few features which are available in the paid version. After 30 days of use, the free version displays reminders to upgrade to the paid version, but remains functional. For personal use, you are encouraged, but not required, to upgrade to the paid version.
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