In article <VbqdnUzMLNKLQTDYnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d@giganews.com>,
<jenabrams4312@randrmail.org> wrote:
>http://www.sandboxie.com/
>
>I've been trying to understand it from the diagram. In summary, rather
>than writing directly to the partitions and folders on your hard drive,
>it writes to it's own sort of imaging area, and then you have to find and
>pick the files you've downloaded that you want to keep. It prevents
>anything from being written to the registry, so that if you collect
>spyware, the sandbox can be emptied - I think (correct me if I'm wrong).
>
>I read Gizmo's review here:
>
>http://www.techsupportalert.com/issu....htm#Section_1
>
>It sounds to me that it's a great theory in principle, but the way it's
>descibed in that review makes it sound very awkward to use.
>Why haven't any of the major manufacturers thought of something like this?

Reviews notwithstanding, these programs may give more illusion of security
than actual fact. There is a raging debate on "sandbox" software in
the comp.security.firewalls this week that you might want to check out.