Craig
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- Location
- South East Midlands - UK
For over the past 10 years I have exclusively used Sandboxie, an extremely user-friendly virtual program. Sandboxie encloses the entire browser not just the web and effectively creates a virtual hard disc. Sandboxie is configured to open the default browser by clicking the desktop icon.
Any program can be sandboxed with a right click.
Download from here -
https://www.sandboxie.com/DownloadSandboxie
How it works -
https://www.sandboxie.com/HowItWorks
A virtual concept is that the computer is wide open to the world, the good, the bad and the ugly, but completely sealed off from the users PC operating system. The bugs and malicious activities are allowed to flap around in their contained virtual environment but can go nowhere. Nothing leaves the sandbox unless the user allows it to. You still need an AV program to protect your PC when not using Sandboxie. In normal use, Sandboxie opens the default browser.
On browser closure, everything inside the sandboxed virtual environment, including all programs is either closed or killed off, complete with bugs. Whatever creepy crawlies and malicious nonsense was about has not even sniffed the outside of the virtual sandbox - effectively a sealed operating quarantine area. The Fox never gets anywhere near the Chickens.
I have never had a single infection of any significance in all those 10 years. A few minor offenders have got through at times, probably due to when I have had to use an unsandboxed browser, but were soon killed off by my AV`s. I have surfed through the Valley of Death many times, you name it, I have been there, but always come out without a scratch.
A virtual system has no restrictions, it is infinite, whereas all other security programs depend on constantly updating their massive data bases in a mad dash to keep up with the bug Maestros. A losing battle of "follow the leader". Data base programs are out-of-date at the time of updating. In a virtual environment, there is no data base, new bugs are no different from old bugs, they are all safely contained in the sandbox and the program never lags behind the bug creators..
I operate the Free Sandboxie program which you get automatically after the 30 days trial. It has never given a single iota of trouble and updates are advised when available. I just never know it is there, battling the bugs, except that I never get any infections as a result.
Any program can be sandboxed with a right click.
Download from here -
https://www.sandboxie.com/DownloadSandboxie
How it works -
https://www.sandboxie.com/HowItWorks
A virtual concept is that the computer is wide open to the world, the good, the bad and the ugly, but completely sealed off from the users PC operating system. The bugs and malicious activities are allowed to flap around in their contained virtual environment but can go nowhere. Nothing leaves the sandbox unless the user allows it to. You still need an AV program to protect your PC when not using Sandboxie. In normal use, Sandboxie opens the default browser.
On browser closure, everything inside the sandboxed virtual environment, including all programs is either closed or killed off, complete with bugs. Whatever creepy crawlies and malicious nonsense was about has not even sniffed the outside of the virtual sandbox - effectively a sealed operating quarantine area. The Fox never gets anywhere near the Chickens.
I have never had a single infection of any significance in all those 10 years. A few minor offenders have got through at times, probably due to when I have had to use an unsandboxed browser, but were soon killed off by my AV`s. I have surfed through the Valley of Death many times, you name it, I have been there, but always come out without a scratch.
A virtual system has no restrictions, it is infinite, whereas all other security programs depend on constantly updating their massive data bases in a mad dash to keep up with the bug Maestros. A losing battle of "follow the leader". Data base programs are out-of-date at the time of updating. In a virtual environment, there is no data base, new bugs are no different from old bugs, they are all safely contained in the sandbox and the program never lags behind the bug creators..
I operate the Free Sandboxie program which you get automatically after the 30 days trial. It has never given a single iota of trouble and updates are advised when available. I just never know it is there, battling the bugs, except that I never get any infections as a result.