Did you know about Sandboxie?
I am pretty excited about this software and I bet that some of you folks will be as well. Thanks to a wonderful podcast called Security Now, I have been shown the way! The program that I am talking about is Sandboxie. This is a very complicated program with a simple purpose, to keep your programs from doing anything stupid. I have to say bravo, this application is awesome and very good at what it does.
So, what does Sandboxie do? Well, in a nutshell, Sandboxie takes your programs and runs them in a space that prevents them from making any permanent changes to your data or your system. You read it correctly, you run your programs in a sandbox which makes your programs think that they are running on the system, but they aren’t. Once you decide to delete the sandbox all changes the program made goes away. Sweet huh?
Think of it this way, let’s say you are using Internet Explorer and you decide that you want to go to a shady website. Let’s say the site has evil code on the page that tries any number of javascript hacks to break into your machine. Well, if you did you would probably have a bunch of viruses and trojans on your machine. You probably wouldn’t know it happened either. Does that sound like fun?
With Sandboxie you can open your programs in a Sandbox. By doing that you will be able to do the same things you did before, but with added security. If you took the same scenario from above and did that in Sandboxie, you would still get the virus and trojans and all that crap. However, this time you could delete the sandbox and, poof, there goes all the crap! I know you are excited and I was too.
There are many applications for this software, for instance you could install a program, install it, and if you don’t like it simply delete the sandbox and it’s gone. Or how about running your email in a sandbox and if you click a bad link and corrupt your machine, just close it and there goes the problem.
I know, too good to be true or what about the files you want to save. Well, Sandboxie is designed to give you the ability to assign programs the rights to save files when you want them to. That means only files you want saved will be able to be saved. I can’t suggest this software any more than this, it’s awesome. But there is one more thing that makes this software awesome. Once you buy it, for $30 bucks, you get a lifetime registration and you can install it on any computer you own. Go get it now…that is all.
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