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Five sandboxing apps to protect your Windows computer
by Lee Mathews Mar 11th 2009
System admins and technicians deal with a number of frustrations in our daily work. One of the biggest: desktops that keep getting misused, abused, and trashed as a result of carelessness, malice, or a lack of common sense.Sandboxing programs are a great way to prevent these kinds of headaches. What do they do? In simple terms, they prevent applications from making changes to your system. It's kind of like having an imaginary hard drive where programs think they're operating like normal, but their actions never make an impact on your real filesystem.
Here are five options available for Windows systems to get the job done. These apps are great not only for the workplace or situations where you're looking after public or shared computers, they're also a fantastic way to protect your home computer from unwanted changes due to accidental misuse and malware.
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