Below is a picture of Sandboxie control (The Sandboxie User interface). When you run programs under Sandboxie’s supervision, the interaction between programs running in the sandbox (isolated space) and the system outside the sandbox is seamless. Most files I download, they run sandboxed every time they run during their lifetime in my computer. Personally, I run every program I run on a daily basis inside Sandboxie. You can run your browsers, email clients, PDF Readers, video players, etc. You can run all kind of programs under Sandboxie. Sandboxie is a sandbox program for Windows: an applications sandbox is a runtime environment wherein programs run in an isolated space. So, I decided to try Sandboxie, and nearly 11 years later, I am still using it. Sandboxie doesn’t allow drivers or services to be installed in the sandbox. Later, while searching for protection against rootkits, my travels led me directly to Sandboxie. One of those technologies was sandboxing. During cleanup, I learned a lot about security and came to realize that there were better technologies available to protect our computers than anti viruses/scanners.

I took the approach of cleaning the infection as a challenge, and had fun doing it. Until that day, whenever I got infected, I always had somebody clean up the infection. So, how did I become a Sandboxie user? One day late in 2008 during a browsing session, I was hit by malware (a rootkit). I haven’t had an infection since the day I became a Sandboxie user. After I became a Sandboxie user, infections went away completely.

I thought, “If I am going to use the internet, I am going to get infected and there’s nothing I can do about it.” The effect of using Sandboxie has been huge on the quality of my computing experience. Before I started using Sandboxie, I used to get malware infections once or twice a year, and simply accepted those infections.

I’ll start this article on Sandboxie with a few words on how I became a Sandboxie user.

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