The word sandbox is in IT security circles for secure, sealed off to the outside work environments within an operating system, such as the so-called virtual machines. It can be any operating system inside another operating system to run. malware of any kind while remaining completely isolated and will do no real harm. Sandboxie brings such an insular environment in the smaller style on Windows computers.
Without having a complete virtual operating system install, so come home users with less luxuriant equipped hardware to enjoy a safe environment for browser, mail program & Co. After the start of Sandboxie can be started on your own start menu all desired applications.
Sandboxie arises during operation between Windows and the corresponding application launched. So do not end up unwelcome guests actually on the hard drive. Who wants to try a new software, it starts normally within Sandboxie. Terminating Sandboxie, no traces of the used programs remain on the actual system.
Conclusion
Sandboxie does not replace a real virtual machine à la VMWare . For this, the application is not even thought of. Rather, the inclined home users with Sandboxie brings a virtual work environment on the computer with which he can safely surf and email. In addition, thanks to Sandboxie can be debugged programs without having to worry about the registry and other important system settings.
Reference
Users of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition can be a specially customized version downloaded from the website of the developer.
