Gaming Anyone use Sandboxie?

[Aijelsop]

I just found this neat program, it's called Sandboxie. ( http://www.sandboxie.com/ )

Basically, what it does, or what I can get out of it's description is that it kind of freezes Windows, and you can use programs without them accessing your harddrive (unless given permission to). So you can download a virus, and run it, install it, whatever. Then you can close Sandboxie, and it's like nothing happened.

I haven't tried it yet. I've watched some videos, and it looks really cool.

(not mine)

Just sharing this with you guys, thought you might think it's helpful too.

 

[OSpencerO]

I have used Sandboxie however I have used Avast 7 autosandbox & browser protection quite a bit more lately.
In my opinion they both work well, I think they are good for expert computer users & great novice computer users.
The only problems I've had is getting Sandboxie to play nice with some of my other programs mainly Avast before Avast offered sandboxing.



Spencer

 

[FireEmblemGuy]

I used it to trade stuff between Steam accounts, and if I needed to temporarily install something adware filled. Haven't really been able to use it lately, since Windows 8 is unsupported.

 

[Edster]

Been using it for years. I never open a Keygen without it.

 

[FAST6191]

I have seen a few things escape the sandbox over the years and tend to opt for other methods (usually pressing yes, no or otherwise several times to various programs as they make changes) or using a VM but I do quite like it and is one of the nicer methods for trying to protect people beyond the token efforts of anti virus and without the hassle of some of the more in depth methods like whitelisting (although a properly set up browser is a must).