Sandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation software for 32- and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems. It is being developed by David Xanatos since it became open source, before that it was developed by Sophos (which acquired it from Invincea, which acquired it earlier from the original author Ronen Tzur). It creates a sandbox-like isolated operating environment in which applications can be run or installed without permanently modifying the local or mapped drive. An isolated virtual environment allows controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing.
Sandboxie runs your applications in an isolated abstraction area called a sandbox. Under the supervision of Sandboxie, an application operates normally and at full speed, but can't effect permanent changes to your computer. Instead, the changes are effected only in the sandbox.
Sandboxie – Sandbox Your Applications
You should view this tutorial in a sandboxed Web browser. To do that, use the Getting Started Tutorial (Web) command in the Help Menu of Sandboxie Control, and make sure you tell Sandboxie Control to run your browser sandboxed:
In all cases on this list, your client-side program is exposed to remote software code, which could use the program as a channel to infiltrate your system. By running the program sandboxed, you greatly increase the control you have over that channel.
Yes, to some extent. First of all, your system (outside the sandbox) must not have been already compromised by an installed key-logger. Sandboxie can not protect against key-loggers that are already running outside the sandbox.
This low-level sandboxing in some competing products makes it possible to install a wider range of applications and system tools -- including system drivers -- into the sandbox. Sandboxie can install most applications into the sandbox, but not system software nor drivers.
If you read What is Sandboxie then you know Sandboxie is like a transparency layer placed over the paper. (The paper is your computer.) When you save files (downloads, documents, emails, or anything else) through a sandboxed program, these files go into the transparency layer that is the sandbox.
You sometimes want to test tools you read about on the web. Other times, you have a problem to fix quickly, and to develop a solution you often need to try out different software versions. Some days you will have to deal with security issues, and during your research you may need to leave the securer part of the Internet and open some hacker sites. These are just a few reasons why nearly every computer is cluttered with unattended applications after some months of work. Virtualization offers a nice solution to this problem, but it is quite resource heavy and often requires additional software licenses.
Solution: Install the games on your computer, not in a sandbox. Most games can work. However, there are known reports that some simply may not. If you run into a problem with a Steam game, you should make sure Steam client is updated on your host machine. Run Steam not sandboxed, download and install the game on your host computer and then "right click" on the game shortcut and select "Run Sandboxed" as a workaround. If problems persist, please let us know the details by posting on the official Github repository here.
While browsers are a very important weakness in any operating system, by no means are they the only weakness. Any application has the potential to be malicious and therefore the security posture of any computer can be strengthened by the use of sandboxing. Manual sandboxing is the process of purposely configuring your system to sandbox an application that otherwise might have full access to your system.
Taking the time to sandbox your system can provide a solid defence against many types of malware and help with software development. There is no substitute for a healthy dose of paranoia when using the internet, but isolating your more vulnerable applications can help.
Consider a situation in which an application shares your computer with all the other running programs. Some of the programs running on your computer may contain sensitive information. Perhaps you have legal documents, budget spreadsheets, or a password manager open, and those applications are storing some data in memory.
There are tons of different sandbox applications for Windows 10, with many working slightly differently and focused around different tasks. The following list are the best ones you can download today.
When using Shade Sandbox, all your browsing history, temporary files, cookies, Windows registry, system files, etc., are well isolated from the operating system. Any files downloaded when using Shade will be stored in the Virtual Downloads folder, which can be accessed from within the Shade interface. If you are looking for a sandbox application with a simpler user interface, than Shade Sandbox is for you.
Your Web browser should come up sandboxed. You can tell that a program is sandboxed because its window title bar contains additional Sandboxie [#] indicators: ((NOTE: Newer browsers may not show the # in the title bar, however if you hover your mouse along the edges of the window, it will turn yellow.)
The picture above shows Sandboxie is running three programs. The first, iexplore.exe, stands for Internet Explorer, as this tutorial assumes Internet Explorer is the Web browser in use. If the default Web browser in your system is Firefox, or Opera, then you would see firefox.exe or opera.exe, respectively, as the first program running in the sandbox.
Select (highlight) the desired configuration and click the Add button to enable it for this sandbox. If you use non-default locations for the data (profile) folders used by your Web browsers, make sure to also visit the Applications > Folders settings page to specify the alternate locations.
Here's a copy paste from our FAQ regarding how does Sandboxie protect you, which explains how does Sandboxie protect your computer, and it also explains that it does not typically stop sandboxed apps from reading your sensitive data.
It should be noted, however, that Sandboxie does not typically stop sandboxed programs from reading your sensitive data. However, by careful configuration of the ClosedFilePath and ClosedKeyPath settings, you can achieve this goal as well.
Email: Clicking email (mailto) links typically causes your web browser to start your email software. This will not work correctly unless Sandboxie is configured to run your email software in that sandbox. See FAQ Email.
Download manager: Clicking download links is intercepted and handled by software which is operating outside your web browser. When the web browser is running in a sandbox, this might cause it to start the download manager in the sandbox as well, which would probably not be the desired result.
Sandboxie is an open-source OS-level virtualization solution for Microsoft Windows.[11][12][13] It is a sandboxing solution that creates an isolated operating environment in which applications can run without permanently modifying the local system.[11][14] This virtual environment allows for controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing.[14][15][16]
The last time I tested system sandboxing software was in the XP era. I remember programs likeShadowGuard, if my memory servers me well, and Deep Freeze, designed to create a virtual filesystemlayer to which changes would be made during your active session, and then on next reboot, these wouldbe scrubbed back to a clean state. In essence, a read-only system with the ability for selectivemodification.
Because Sandboxie usage isn't trivial, the program starts with a tutorial. You are asked to follow afew steps, so you get familiar with how the application works. I found the wizard somewhat clunky, andI only figured what gives after I completed it, so to speak. TL;DR, you will have a Sandboxie-edshortcut for your default Web browser on the desktop, and if you run that, your browser (Firefox inthis case) will launch sandboxed. The main program interface is a task manager of a sort, and it willshow you all your sandboxed applications, grouped by their containers (you can later configuredifferent sandboxes). When a program is running under Sandboxie, you can identify it by the [#] prefixand suffix in the title (not trivial as not all programs show titles), and by a yellow border when youhover the mouse over the application window.
I started using the program, and soon learned that it has a function called Immediate Recovery. Ifyou copy a file into one of the pre-defined folders, you can "recover" them from the sandbox and intoyour real system. By default, Sandboxie isolates applications running inside it from the outsidefilesystem, so if you close them, all changes will be lost (like say downloads). It's like running abrowser in a Linux live session, where you have no persistence, and the changes are gone if you reboot.If you don't know what Linux is, ignore the last sentence.
I soon found out that there are multiple ways to tweak the Sandboxie configuration. If youright-click on a process listed inside the sandbox, you can make some changes to how it behaves. Butthis is only effective for your current session. Then, you also have global settings. This is somewhatconfusing.
It was a little hard finding the per-sandbox global settings, but find them I did. Then, you have asuper-long list of options you can tweak, including the look and feel, how and if you recover or deletefiles, grouping of programs (like browsers based on Firefox or Chromium), and migration of files intothe sandbox. I found some of the options quite tricky, because the explanations use the not format. Soyou need to put your brain in reverse to understand what will actually happen.
Next, you have a long, detailed list of restrictions and access rights. You can decide what type ofresources the sandboxes applications will have (for that particular box). You can use a very fine-tunedlist of permissions, including which files can be read or written to, which files will not beaccessible, network ports, and more. Again, using the Linux analogy, this is similar to writingAppArmor or SELinux rules, and it's no trivial task. You really need good understanding of the systeminternals to be able to make changes here without compromising your security or breaking yourapplications - or even your system. Yes, if you're not careful, you can lock yourself out of Windows.For instance, the listed DLLs below - what do they mean to an ordinary user? 2ff7e9595c
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