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Sandboxie

Sandboxie 3.00
Developer: Ronen Tzur
Latest release: 3.00 / 10 July 2007
OS: Microsoft Windows
License: Shareware
Website: http://www.Sandboxie.com

Sandboxie is a sandbox-type isolation software for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It creates a "container" in which programs can be safely launched without modifying the host's OS. Sandboxie is shareware. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Author

Sandboxie is developed by Ronen Tzur, an independent computer scientist.


Description

Sandboxie is active upstream from any infections which may occur in computers equipped with a Windows OS. This software isolates navigation files and applications functions which it redirects into a sandbox.


Downloaded files such as scripts and other programs are locked in replicas of the directories normally used. Furthermore, Sandboxie uses a copy of part of the Windows Registry in order to protect the original from malicious insertions.


Thus, the modifications carried out under the protections of Sandboxie are not effective in authentic files. Parasites and bugs that are locked in it do not affect the operating system. Any new files or changes which are to be kept should be registered outside the sandbox after having checked their validity.


In the same way, any type of malware elements are confined into the container. Furthermore, Sandboxie, from the zone that it controls, does not allow any injection into the kernel of Windows (software driver, Dll ...). Thus, it acts in a similar way but at a different level to the Windows Vista 64 bits Kernel Patch Protection's system and prevents the running within it of any software in supervisor mode, be it malicious or not. Malware or malicious software is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owners informed consent. ... Windows XP loading drivers during a Safe Mode bootup A device driver, or a software driver is a specific type of computer software, typically developed to allow interaction with hardware devices. ... DLL is an abbreviation which can commonly mean: Data link layer, a layer in the OSI network architecture model Dynamically Linked Library, a binary application library file format in Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2 (see the Dynamic linking section of the Library (computer science) article) Doubly Linked List, a... Kernel Patch Protection, informally known as PatchGuard, is a feature of x64 editions of Microsoft Windows that prevents patching the kernel. ...


One needs only to empty the contents of the sandbox before turning off the computer so that any dangerous traces remaining in the container are definitely erased from the disk; Albeit cookies, spyware, dialers and other malicious softwares, histories and contents of the Web cache, etc.. Web caching is the caching of web documents (e. ...


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