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Sandboxie Review

Yesterday I reviewed Sandboxie and as I expected, it completely rocked! Sandboxie allows you to run your

browser in a virtual sandbox, thus isolating anything downloaded intentionally or unintentionally (drive-by

malware infections for example). If you browse the internet using Sandboxie you’ll never have to be worried about getting infected by malware since all malware will be trapped in the sandbox. When you finished

browsing the internet you simple close the browser and empty the sandbox.

Go watch the Sandboxie review on my YouTube channel now!

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  • darshan (youtube- lo

    what up matt. your reviews are really good. Just one question. which one is better defensewall or sandboxie? i just want your opinion. thanks.

    you rock man!!

  • malwarekilla

    @darshan – personally I like DefenseWall. It's total control. Sandboxie is a great intro to Sandboxing, however IMO DefenseWall is a step above.

  • Ricky Tron

    About all these great apps, it seems that only Comodo is available for 64 bits systems.

  • 3xist

    Sandboxie + Comodo Internet Security proves useful on 32bit systems, Like if malware jumps out of the Sandbox you know you have CIS to Prevent it. :)

    IMO, I don't think you even need Sandboxie if your using CIS… But using Sandboxie with or without it is good. @Ricky Tron it is hard to find 64 bit apps.

  • fsibechi

    With Sandboxie you can run not only your browser but you can run Windows Explorer, e-mail reader or any other program you want sandboxed. Sandboxie also adds to Windows explorer a option " Run sandboxed" so you can ran any program you want in the sandbox. And oh Sandboxie is free to try for 30 days , after that it appears a nag screen to buy a license , nah the developer needs to get some support from you , but you can use for as long as you want Sandboxie with the nag screen when it starts no other limitations.

  • ankit

    Matt, do you have access to defensewall discounts? i've lost my job due to recession and cant afford it…

  • Creer

    I agree – DefenseWall rocks! Great application i like it more than Sandboxie.

  • http://www.softsphere.com Ilya Rabinovich

    @ankit- I have such the access. :)

  • malwarekilla

    @ankit – I think Ilya might be able to hook ya up.

  • brused

    I had high hopes for SandBoxie BUT.

    I installed it the first time and everthing seemed to go well, But later I noticed that all of my system restore points were gone. I blamed it on something else and spent several weeks uninstalling, cleaning and house keeping.

    During this time I have created numerous restore points and have not lost a single one………

    Today I started reinstalling various programs. I continued creating a new System Restore Point both before and after each program installed. Then I reinstalled SandBoxie.

    AND THERE THE PROBLEM HAPPENED – - AFTER SANDBOXIE WAS INSTALLED EVERY SYSTEM RESTORE POINT WAS REMOVED.

    I can't understand why and NO for warning……….

  • alex

    this is a piece of crap i got this stupid virus from a site and i cant remove it

  • Randomguy

    @alex u must be doing something wrong with sandboxie.

    if u have set the sandboxie configurations properly…

    after browsing all u ever need to do is close it and bam! no traces of malware or even ur browsing cache will be left behind in the sandbox.

  • Xavier Cugat

    Sandboxie is way better than Defensewall. The latter causes occasional weird slow downs. Sandboxie is leaner, cleaner and much more granular.

  • Nevi

    I dont know whether SB is better than DW,but I know they are both great apps to defend your computer.Personally I think DW probably is a little easier to work with,but its small stuff.
    Long time I have been solid fan of Kaspersky,and I still think Kaspersky and Avira (premium)( Emsisoft too), is some of the best signature based antivirus agents outthere.Its just those combos eat alot of resources,because you will need a good HIPS firewall too.
    The last 4 weeks I have used a combo of Prevx 3.0 and Sandboxie.Nothing I have thrown at it has gone thru,and the combination take so little resources.Very nice.Me think I have found my future combo.