In essence, the Web site can use the full range of active content tools, and if it uses these tools maliciously to install software or otherwise make changes to your computer, these changes can be easily undone.Īccording to Sophos, the above statement is no longer fully applicable as they transition to Open Source. Thus, there is no trade-off of functionality for security. Instead, it isolates and quarantines the outcome of whatever the Web site may do to your computer, including the installation of unsolicited software. It requires neither the disabling nor blocking of functions available to Web sites through the browser. However, whether these changes are harmless or harmful, they do, in fact, happen to your computer system. Most of the time, these changes are harmless, like recording the addresses of websites you have visited (and when), so the browser can help you complete a web address that you type in. When you browse the web, changes occur to your system. Sandboxie lets you run programs in an isolated space, which will prevent them from making permanent changes to other programs and data to your computer.

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