Protect Your PC from Malware by Running Applications Inside a Sandbox

[Batu69]

Double your computer's security by adding a powerful sandboxing application next to your antivirus solution

   Click Cybergenic Shade in the Cybergenic Security Center, drop the .exe files of applications to put them in the sandbox, and remove any of them with one click

 

The Internet is filled with all sorts of perils that put your computer at risk if you're not careful with the links you click and files you download. Having a powerful anti-malware application at hand plays an essential role in removing and preventing infections.

However, you can increase the level of safety by resorting to sandboxing tools. These are security applications that put together a virtual environment isolated from the rest of the machine. This way, if you get infected with malware because of a shady downloaded file or visited website while you're in the sandbox, for example, you can just revert Windows to a previous state.

In the following article, we're exploring Cybergenic Shade, Quietzone and Sandboxie to show you how to create a sandbox to prevent malware and roll back Windows to a stable state if necessary.

Cybergenic Shade

Once launched, Cybergenic Shade gets integrated into the taskbar notifications area (also known as systray, near the clock) and can be accessed from a purple S button.

Double-click the tray icon to bring up the main window to the screen. Click Cybergenic Shade on the left to view a panel on the right, where you can drop the launchers of installed programs (.exe files or desktop shortcuts) to place them in the sandbox.

Once they're in the sandbox, the icons of the utilities are marked with the purple S button to tell them apart. From this point on, you can launch a sandboxed app just as you would run a normal one, for as long as it exists in the sandbox.

Quietzone

Quietzone creates a sandbox for all hard disks and discards modifications made in this mode at the next system reboot. It displays a large on/off button on the upper-right corner of the screen, so you can click it to turn the sandbox on and off.

In the main app window, click the One Time Quietzone slider to keep the sandbox enabled until the next system startup, or Permanent Quietzone to enable the sandbox at every startup. Instead of All Disks, you can protect only a particular partition by clicking the menu next to Protection to select a drive letter. As warned by the application, you have to reboot the PC to commit changes related to the sandbox status.

Sandboxed windows have a purple margin that appears when moving the mouse pointer over it.

Sandboxie

After installation, Sandboxie creates a yellow icon in the systray. Right-click it and open the DefaultBox submenu to Run Web Browser (launches your default web browser), Run Email Reader (launches your default email client) or Run Windows Explorer (launches Windows Explorer). Any files or folders that you copy or cut in sandboxed Explorer can be directly pasted into a location that's not sandboxed (to prevent the items from being auto-deleted by Sandboxie after exiting the isolated environment).

If you Run Any Program from the DefaultBox submenu, the application brings up a window where you can click the Browse button and use the integrated file navigator to locate the program's launcher (.exe file). If you have to run it with administrative rights, tick the Run As UAC Administrator box. Click Ok to continue.

If you pick the Run From Start Menu option from the DefaultBox submenu, Sandboxie displays a menu with Desktop, Programs, All Files and Folders, and a Cancel option. Open the Desktop submenu to select any file from the desktop to open in the isolated environment, the Programs submenu to choose any installed application to launch, or All Files and Folders to open submenus with the drives, folders, subfolders and files organized in a tree view, provided that you know the full path of a file to access.

Double-click the Sandboxie systray icon to bring up the main window and drop any file to open, a program to run, or a directory to open in Windows Explorer. Sandboxed windows are surrounded by a yellow border that appears when moving the mouse pointer to the title bar.

Play video guide below to find out how to create a sandbox using these three tools. You can also download Cybergenic Shade, Quietzone and Sandboxie.

Protect Your PC from Malware by Running Applications Inside a Sandbox

 

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[spinalgr1998]

Nice topic ! Thank u very much for the infos . 

 

Personally I am using sandboxie + shadow defender

[Pete 12]

You can use try&decide also, everything gone after restart..............

[steven36]

27 minutes ago, Pete 12 said:

You can use try&decide also, everything gone after restart..............

Sand boxing  is a false sense of sercuity that makes people think there immune  from malware .

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[Togijak]

2 hours ago, Pete 12 said:

You can use try&decide also, everything gone after restart..............

try&decide is not included in the newer version of Acronis and the old versions whit  try&decide don't run under Win 10

[steven36]

Even try and decide , Shadow defender  can fail you  ..you can test something  and think its clean and it really not be ...All  it it takes is one smart malware developer  that knows how to evade detection and you most likey will  store it or install it on you're real machine . If you dont trust something and are this paranoid  that you  think it needs sandboxed  you need too run it in a vm  that dont have access to you're  real machine . I been vising  warez forums since 2007  i been testing software since 2001 in all these years   i never used sandboxie other than just too test it and only once did i get infected  with  malware and it was a infected keygen that evaded kaspersky detection but  my firewall  and winpatrol let me know it was infected and I sent it off to be checked and sure enough  it was . Now days  I pay close attention  to what calls out  and dont on my pc  and block everything that dont need internet access  or i dont trust to have it  . Even what does have internet access  i watch and see what its doing. .Now back before malware there were virus  that people  caught  and  all you could do was reformat if you cached  them most AV would fail that's the reason i switched to kaspersky back then it could prevent virus but not cure them so much . But  some types  of malware are made to not  run as long as sandboxied or in a virtual environment and evade scanners too.

[humble3d]

6 hours ago, Batu69 said:

Double your computer's security by adding a powerful sandboxing application next to your antivirus solution

   Click Cybergenic Shade in the Cybergenic Security Center, drop the .exe files of applications to put them in the sandbox, and remove any of them with one click

 

The Internet is filled with all sorts of perils that put your computer at risk if you're not careful with the links you click and files you download. Having a powerful anti-malware application at hand plays an essential role in removing and preventing infections.

However, you can increase the level of safety by resorting to sandboxing tools. These are security applications that put together a virtual environment isolated from the rest of the machine. This way, if you get infected with malware because of a shady downloaded file or visited website while you're in the sandbox, for example, you can just revert Windows to a previous state.

In the following article, we're exploring Cybergenic Shade, Quietzone and Sandboxie to show you how to create a sandbox to prevent malware and roll back Windows to a stable state if necessary.

Cybergenic Shade

Once launched, Cybergenic Shade gets integrated into the taskbar notifications area (also known as systray, near the clock) and can be accessed from a purple S button.

Double-click the tray icon to bring up the main window to the screen. Click Cybergenic Shade on the left to view a panel on the right, where you can drop the launchers of installed programs (.exe files or desktop shortcuts) to place them in the sandbox.

Once they're in the sandbox, the icons of the utilities are marked with the purple S button to tell them apart. From this point on, you can launch a sandboxed app just as you would run a normal one, for as long as it exists in the sandbox.

Quietzone

Quietzone creates a sandbox for all hard disks and discards modifications made in this mode at the next system reboot. It displays a large on/off button on the upper-right corner of the screen, so you can click it to turn the sandbox on and off.

In the main app window, click the One Time Quietzone slider to keep the sandbox enabled until the next system startup, or Permanent Quietzone to enable the sandbox at every startup. Instead of All Disks, you can protect only a particular partition by clicking the menu next to Protection to select a drive letter. As warned by the application, you have to reboot the PC to commit changes related to the sandbox status.

Sandboxed windows have a purple margin that appears when moving the mouse pointer over it.

Sandboxie

After installation, Sandboxie creates a yellow icon in the systray. Right-click it and open the DefaultBox submenu to Run Web Browser (launches your default web browser), Run Email Reader (launches your default email client) or Run Windows Explorer (launches Windows Explorer). Any files or folders that you copy or cut in sandboxed Explorer can be directly pasted into a location that's not sandboxed (to prevent the items from being auto-deleted by Sandboxie after exiting the isolated environment).

If you Run Any Program from the DefaultBox submenu, the application brings up a window where you can click the Browse button and use the integrated file navigator to locate the program's launcher (.exe file). If you have to run it with administrative rights, tick the Run As UAC Administrator box. Click Ok to continue.

If you pick the Run From Start Menu option from the DefaultBox submenu, Sandboxie displays a menu with Desktop, Programs, All Files and Folders, and a Cancel option. Open the Desktop submenu to select any file from the desktop to open in the isolated environment, the Programs submenu to choose any installed application to launch, or All Files and Folders to open submenus with the drives, folders, subfolders and files organized in a tree view, provided that you know the full path of a file to access.

Double-click the Sandboxie systray icon to bring up the main window and drop any file to open, a program to run, or a directory to open in Windows Explorer. Sandboxed windows are surrounded by a yellow border that appears when moving the mouse pointer to the title bar.

Play video guide below to find out how to create a sandbox using these three tools. You can also download Cybergenic Shade, Quietzone and Sandboxie.

Protect Your PC from Malware by Running Applications Inside a Sandbox

 

Article source

Sorry...  I'm having another senior moment... are any of these three freeware ?

 

[steven36]

1 minute ago, humble3d said:

 

Windows 10 is free for now  if you this paranoid  install windows 10 and dont install no legacy apps and just use the ones from the store . People use too think Apple was immune to malware  because they sandbox everything but now they have malware too  . Even one time ransomware got  in Transmission (BitTorrent client) on mac osx but most any other desktop O/S is safer than windows so it do help but its not a cure all

[straycat19]

Nothing beats running Windows (or any OS) in a VM for protecting a system from any possible threat.  No software to install with unknown capabilities (just because they say it is safe doesn't mean it is) and having to remember the methods needed to keep those items you may download or copy and actually want to keep.  With a VM you keep everything, copy off those items you want to keep before deleting the VM and using a fresh copy.  (I make a copy of every new VM and a copy of each VM I make with software I use.  Then just copy that over the working VM when I want to start fresh.  Simple and secure.)

[Togijak]

only an full crypted AirGap computer is 100% safe, every other computer can't be 100% safe and the greatest risk is the user.

[Pete 12]

Hi Togijak, you are not well informed , T&D is present on latest Acronis True Image , and I can assure you it works very well on a Win10 x64-system ! ( with fast SSD )

I use T&D for testing my software and to keep my system clean...........

Acronis made great improvements with the software they sell, have another good look at it,you wont regret..............

[Togijak]

2 hours ago, Pete 12 said:

T&D is present on latest Acronis True Image

hmmm in the german 2014 version T&D was not present = sorry for my wrong commend

[SBIE Support]

Please show us and exploit? Or real world data where a SB has been defeated? Hmm? Right. 

[knowledge-Spammer]

4 hours ago, SBIE Support said:

Please show us and exploit? Or real world data where a SB has been defeated? Hmm? Right. 

u sure u want to play that game ?

[knowledge-Spammer]

SBIE Support

 

about  7 months ago  we seen Sandboxie  is like all softwere it can be exploited in more ways then one if needed have a good day   take note old video