Sandboxie becomes freeware, soon-to-be open source - Help Net Security

Sandboxie becomes freeware, soon-to-be open source - Help Net Security

Sophos plans to open source Sandboxie, a relatively popular Windows utility that allows users to run applications in a sandbox. Until that happens, they’ve made the utility free.



About Sandboxie


Sandboxie creates a virtual container in which untrusted programs can be run or installed so that they can’t maliciously modify the underlying OS or data on the host machine.


If can make the use of apps such as browsers, email programs, IM clients, Office suites, etc. safer, and it can be used to test newly downloaded, untrusted applications.


“Sandboxie extends the operating system with sandboxing capabilities by blending into it. Applications can never access hardware such as disk storage directly, they have to ask the OS to do it for them. Since Sandboxie integrates into the OS, it can do what it does without risk of being circum ..

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