Shade sandbox
Shade sandbox is a sandbox-based isolation program developed by Eugene Balabanov.[1] 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 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.
Shade 1.8 | |
Original author(s) | Eugene Balabanov |
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Developer(s) | SHADE Sandbox LLC |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Windows XP SP3 Windows Vista SP2 Windows 7 Windows 8.x Windows 10 |
Platform | IA-32 and x64 |
Size | ~14 MB |
Available in | English, German, Polish, Chinese, Ukrainian and Russian |
Type | Security software |
License | Shareware |
Website | www |
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 as vendor's site suggests. 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 [2]
Softpedia describes Shade as "Simple, yet reliable anti-virus protection" [3]
References
- "Eugene's LinkedIn Profile".
- "Shade Sandbox". FindMySoft. FindMySoft. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- "Shade Sandbox". Softpedia.