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.

Developer

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 ...).Therefore, it acts in a similar way but at a different level to the Kernel Patch Protection system on x64 editions of Windows and prevents the running within it of any software in supervisor mode, be it malicious or not.

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, be they cookies, spyware, dialers and other malicious software, histories and contents of the Web cache, etc..