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Microsoft Launches Windows Sandbox where you can run Suspicious Applications
Microsoft has released a new sandbox that's built into Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise versions and allows people to run suspicious or untrusted files without needing a virtual machine.
The Windows Sandbox gives enterprise users a simple integrated tool for executing and inspecting files that could be problematic. Each time a user starts that Windows Sandbox, it creates a clean, new image of Windows and once the user closes the sandbox, that image and all of the files associated with it are deleted.
There are no traces left behind. At its core Windows Sandbox is a lightweight virtual machine, so it needs an operating system image to boot from. One of the key enhancements we have made for Windows Sandbox is the ability to use a copy of the Windows 10 installed on your computer, instead of downloading a new VHD image as you would have to do with an ordinary virtual machine, Hari Pulapaka, a group program manager for the Windows kernel at Microsoft said in a post.
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#5619216 Posted on: 12/20/2018 01:32 PM
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"As to how secure it is, i'm sure we'll find out, but it seems like a decent alternative for end users. Not something that any enterprise would want to jump at though."
I think it can be made decent for Enterprise users with a couple of adjustments for domain usage.
@scatman839
"As to how secure it is, i'm sure we'll find out, but it seems like a decent alternative for end users. Not something that any enterprise would want to jump at though."
I think it can be made decent for Enterprise users with a couple of adjustments for domain usage.
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#5619238 Posted on: 12/20/2018 02:41 PM
Can you run windows in this sandbox? We never know if it's trying to delete our data or collect our data now anyways.
Can you run windows in this sandbox? We never know if it's trying to delete our data or collect our data now anyways.
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#5619270 Posted on: 12/20/2018 04:10 PM
to have a sandbox software is a must for me, but i think third parties have figured it out better, i use a software called sandboxie, and it is not a virtual machine (basically windows sandbox is a VM) it isolate the running software on a separate instance. very useful. is cool to see Microsoft doing this kind of things but i would like a better solution than a VM.
to have a sandbox software is a must for me, but i think third parties have figured it out better, i use a software called sandboxie, and it is not a virtual machine (basically windows sandbox is a VM) it isolate the running software on a separate instance. very useful. is cool to see Microsoft doing this kind of things but i would like a better solution than a VM.
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#5619526 Posted on: 12/21/2018 08:26 AM
One doesn't replace the other. Sandboxes are great until you figure out how to escape them. Sandboxes are basically containers segmented off from the rest of your operating system. Virtualization is an environment that simulates an entirely separate computer. They both have their purposes and it isn't uncommon to see someone running a sandbox in a virtual machine but asking if this new offering from Microsoft is better than going with something like VirtualBox doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Just sayin'.
One doesn't replace the other. Sandboxes are great until you figure out how to escape them. Sandboxes are basically containers segmented off from the rest of your operating system. Virtualization is an environment that simulates an entirely separate computer. They both have their purposes and it isn't uncommon to see someone running a sandbox in a virtual machine but asking if this new offering from Microsoft is better than going with something like VirtualBox doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Just sayin'.
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Theres instructions on how to install it here
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sandbox/ba-p/301849
Wonder how it compares to oracle virtualbox, right now my win 10 sandbox is 32gb.
Oh this sounds vastly preferable
When Windows Sandbox is not installed, we keep the dynamic base image in a compressed package which is only 25MB. When installed the dynamic base package it occupies about 100MB disk space.
As to how secure it is, i'm sure we'll find out, but it seems like a decent alternative for end users. Not something that any enterprise would want to jump at though.