Shade sandbox is a
sandbox-based isolation program
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developed by
Eugene Balabanov.
Shade is distributed to consumers as a shareware solution. It creates an isolated virtual environment within your computer: rather than running software and browsing the
Internet
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directly, you can instead perform these actions through a fenced-off safe area. This mechanism creates a highly controlled environment for running untested or untrustworthy apps without threatening host operating system.
Architecture
Shade sandbox is basically a plugin for an engine, also developed by Eugene Balabanov which enables developers to build security-related solutions such as file monitors , API Spy utilities and, of course, virtual environments. The platform is available for corporate customers. These are some capabilities the platform provides to plugins:
* Control over file system operations
* Control over registry operations
* A DLL injection mechanism so that plugins could alter processes behavior. For instance, Shade itself exploits this capability to draw a frame over "shaded" application windows
Reception
Findmysoft has rated Shade Sandbox 5 out of 5 stars, naming it Essential
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describes Shade as "Simple, yet reliable anti-virus protection"
See also
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Sandbox (computer security)
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Application virtualization
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Deep Freeze
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Sandboxie Plus
References
External links
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Windows security software
Windows-only freeware
Utilities for Windows