Nothing is perfect but this is the closest thing to it. Now I?m not saying this is fool proof, there has been mention of some spyware which are sandbox aware and can escape the sandbox. If you download a virus it will affect the sandbox and not your computer, so to remove it just delete the sandbox. Any file that you download and open from within the sandboxed web browser willalso be contained in the sandbox. The other benefit is virus and spyware protection / prevention. One is privacy, you could install this on someone?s computer or use it on your own,and at the end of your browsing session, delete the sandbox and all traces of your activates are gone and I mean ALL traces. The benefits of this are many but I?ll mention a few. When you sandbox your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, ect?) it makes a shadow copy of your web browser and all the files it requires and copies them to the sandbox as it does with any sandboxed application, this happens faster than you might expect, you really don?t notice it much at all. While using sandboxie to install and test applications is nice, where Sandboxie really shines is while browsing the internet. You simply have to tell Sandboxie to delete the sandbox (function menu / contents of sandbox / delete contents) and the application you just installed is now gone from your computer. Because it installs everything in the sanbox its very easy to remove every trace of the application from the hard drive. You can right click the EXE and then choose ?Run Sandboxed? It then proceeds to install the application to the sandboxed location. An example of this would be to download an application that you are not quite sure about or just want to install without worrying about it damaging your system. It also fakes the registry and it stores the registry entries for the application in a file called RegHive located in C:\Documents and Settings\(your user name)\Application Data\Sandbox\DefaultBox instead of the actual windows registry. It does this by getting between the application and your computer and making it think its installing to c:\program files when in fact its installing to C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Sandbox\DefaultBox\drive\C\Program Files, this goes for any directory on your hard drive. The program lets you sandbox applications or the install of applications, so it does not have contract with the rest of your system. When I explain what this program does, (which I?ll get to in a second) I?ve found that people who are tech oriented think the idea of this program is fantastic, while the average user responds with ?cool? which pretty much means ?whatever?. I just thought I?d write a little review to spread the word about a free, small (250kb) and very useful sandbox utility called ?Sandboxie?.ĭepending on the person I explain it to, I usually get two completely different responses.
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