Sandbox Your Surfing For Security
This, quite simply is an amazing program that will banish all forms of malware from infecting your computer. This is one program that you simply cannot afford to miss out as it keeps your computer free from the daily onslaught of malware.
With normal surfing information is loaded from your hard drive and then through your browser where information is then written back to your computer, if it’s a malicious site then you will also have malware written to your drive, as well as registry entries being changed, programs being hijacked, BHO’s added etc. We all know the effects that a single piece of malware can have, to the point of searching for removal programs or at worst, losing vital documents, photo’s and even carrying out a format to start again.
A ‘Sandbox’ creates a ‘virtual area’ in which you can run your browser, email reader, instant messengers and programs in complete safety. The information is loaded from your hard drive into the sandbox environment, from there the read/write operations are carried out within the sandbox environment and never back to your computer.
You can download programs, email attachments etc in total safety as each is still contained within the sandboxed environment. You can open attachments, run programs and scan for malware and if malware free you can then ‘recover’ them from inside the virtual safe area and save them to your computer quite safely. Should you find malware it is safely contained, and when you terminate programs, browsers, email readers etc within the sandbox, these disappear, as they appear to have never existed because they were in the ‘virtual’ area created by the Sandbox environment.
Colin Richards
Free PC Security
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