It is a bit more complicated but in the big lines it is right.
Why sandbox is important
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Hmmm nice topic... but
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In another subject, what is the difference between Sandboxie/ReHIPS and Windows new sandbox mode (from the May Update)? What would be the advantages in using one or another? And what is the difference in using these methods or a fully virtualized machine (or they already are a fully virtualized system?)
Sorry for the ignorance, but what EBS would be?
I guess sandox could change your machine fingerprint to.
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In another subject, what is the difference between Sandboxie/ReHIPS and Windows new sandbox mode (from the May Update)? What would be the advantages in using one or another? And what is the difference in using these methods or a fully virtualized machine (or they already are a fully virtualized system?)
Sandboxie is dead, so nothing much to discuss.
The only serious one left is rehips.
The difference is with Rehips you have:
- an Application Control module (anti-exe)
- uses Windows mechanism via hardened users profiles. So better compatibility with softs. No permanent updates required like with Sandboxie.
- by default, sandboxed apps opens in virtual desktop (This can be changed to work on main desktop).
- more granular settings and restrictions.
- the Dev is a paranoid but very helpful to solve issues (on his forum).
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Imagine installing your favorite browser, importing your bookmarks, and a installing couple of your favorites extensions, then sealing it in a bubble so every time have a browser session it is as clean as the day you installed it.
This is why I use Sandboxie , I never have to worry about internet history, hidden cookies, or trackers, or anything nefarious making it way on to my system during a browsing session because every time I shut it down any and everything I accumulated during that session is gone.
Easy peasy, no fuss, no muss, don't have to have several extensions that may or may not be getting rid of everything you tell it to or even spying on you themselves.
Aside from doing all your browsing in an Oracle VM VirtualBox what other software can do this?
This is why I use Sandboxie , I never have to worry about internet history, hidden cookies, or trackers, or anything nefarious making it way on to my system during a browsing session because every time I shut it down any and everything I accumulated during that session is gone.
Easy peasy, no fuss, no muss, don't have to have several extensions that may or may not be getting rid of everything you tell it to or even spying on you themselves.
Aside from doing all your browsing in an Oracle VM VirtualBox what other software can do this?
REHIPS. (less intuitively than Sbie, sure, until next build)
With the next upgrade of Win10 coming very soon Sandboxie will probably be broken, if not this one. The next then. Useless to mention an abandoned product.
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It also disables the ability to create system restore point, which can make uninstalling and installing programs that want to create them during the process a pain if not impossible.
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Sophos is going to have a fix for it Sandboxie 5.31.4 is dead - Sandboxie Forum - Sandboxie - Sophos Community so not completely dead,
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It does not survive a reboot. It is for one-time testing of new software, in an out-of-the-box Windows environment. It is no good for continued use, so it is not comparable to ReHIPS or Sandboxie.
If one could start Windows sandbox with the launch of an *.exe, like a browser then have it shut down when you close that *.exe it would be a perfect browser sandbox as you would not want it for continued use just per session.
I am going to have to research that while we wait for the new ReHips release that can hopefully do the same thing but better
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It does, and it make edge way more secure than any other browsers grace of true appcontainer and Application Guard reinforcing it. (chrome appcontainerized is not far)
on enterprise version using group policy, you can instill persistency between sessions.
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