The sandbox limits the reach of tracking cookies and other unwanted things as well. While it will run, it cannot spread to the underlying system because of the sandbox. Say you visited a website with a malicious ad and it tried to infect your PC. One of the main differences is that in case a malware infects the browser, it will be restricted within the sandbox.

You can send emails, check social websites, visit tech sites like ours, and do pretty much anything that you would do in the unsandboxed version. You can use the sandboxed browser like you would normally. If you don't see either the border or the hashes, it is not running in sandboxed mode. This indicates that the program is running inside Sandboxie. You can also see that the program's window title is enclosed in two like this Mozilla Firefox. You will notice that it has a yellow border around the edges of the window (when you mouse over to the edge). Your default browser, regardless of whether it is Firefox, Chrome, Edge or another will open like it always does. Right click on the system tray icon and select Default box > Run Web Browser. The most commonly sandboxed program is the web browser. You can use any of these to run Sandboxed versions of your programs. If you have installed Sandboxie, you will see the icon on the desktop, start menu and system tray. Some programs may not work with Sandboxie if you try to install them directly inside the sandbox. You can run any program that you have installed in Windows inside Sandboxie this also works with portable apps and regular files (that open in other programs). In fact, I would recommend beginners skip the UI and use the tray icon. You don't even need to familiarize yourself with the interface to use the program. In other words, you will learn how to use Sandboxie for browsing securely, downloading files and recovering them, and installing/running programs inside the sandbox. We are not going to discuss that here, rather we're going to look at the basic usage of the program. Recently Sophos announced that Sandboxie is now freeware, and are planning to make it open source. Sandboxie has changed hands twice I think, from the original developer to Invincea, who were in turn acquired by Sophos (and there are rumors that Sophos is up for sale as well). The activity of the sandbox don't affect Windows or your other programs/files in any way what happens in Sandboxie stays in Sandboxie.

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