I offered the home user a very useful program that can prevent infection of their PC when used properly.
Home users read the news, email and download music. Some, but fewer, use the PC for creating and managing files of various form. for those who meddle with pirated software.. well, they get what they deserve.the use of a sandbox program can prevent malicious software from escaping and altering system files, registry keys or anything else for that matter. When a sandbox is used properly, your PC stays clean. Period. You can launch a virus on PURPOSE in a sandbox and then laugh at it because it cannot do any damage unless you release it manually.
I am currently logged in with an administrator account while reading this... and I have no worries because this browser runs in a sandbox. It cannot call external programs without my interaction. The point is, your everyday user has no interest in a deep understanding of what is happening, they simply don't want to deal with an infection. A sandbox will all but prevent that when used properly. This is good, sound advice for the everyday user.
I've been in this business for over 20 years and this is one of the most useful applications of it's kid that I have ever seen. Nothing else even compares in value and performance. It does what it says and it does it well. Only on one occasion did a MS patch break the program, and they released a fix for that rather quickly on the sandboxie website.
I'm having a hard time understanding why you would baulk at someone recommending a simple and effective solution to preventing machine infections.
What I’m balking at, Wiley, is your laughably pretentious assertion that 100% of cyber attacks exploit either a web browser or an email.
Oh and, were the assemblies in your Sandie Box built with a tool like, say, Microsoft Visual Studio - and signed with a certificate?
Did you read the article between downloading “Music” into your sandboxie?
I’ve got a couple thousand files on my iPod. Never needed a SandBoxie for that. NO SALE.