A simple double-click and it's on your machine. ThinApps are also fast to install once they have been built. If you need to carry around some software with you on a USB drive that is not normally portable, ThinApp may help you convert it into a portable application. In addition to preventing malware, ThinApps are also portable, fast to install, and save your custom settings. If exploit code is run on the ThinApp, the result of the code, be it malware file generation, command-line with admin priviledges, etc, will not result in the computer running it being compromised, since the VOS prevents the exploit code from executing on the host machine. This enables all transceiving data to be contained into a controlled environment.

It does this by packaging applications into a Virtual Operating System (VOS) which intercepts calls to system functions such as read, write, and modify. VMWare ThinApp enables you to run applications in a virtual sandbox which can help prevent malware from reaching your computer. I just posted a video on Youtube that goes through the steps of creating a VMWare ThinApp.

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