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Question

Looking to sandbox a program

Jul 11, 2015 8:54AM PDT

Hello, I heard about this thing called sandboxing. From what I learned it sepearates the program so It cant harm your computer

Could you give me like a simple answer of what sandboxing exactly does. i just want to make sure I understand completely.

My Situation: I want to sandbox a mod I got for a game. On virustotal the mod's ".exe" looks suspicious. I want to run the mod with a game. do I have to sandbox the game and the mod so they can run together?

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I'm going with no.
Jul 11, 2015 9:01AM PDT

While we can sandbox an app you want to slice it more finely. Such would have to be implemented in the game.

-> So, that's it. You sandbox the app (game.exe)

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There are tutorials on the web for/about sandboxing.
Jul 11, 2015 9:04AM PDT

Example:

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Re: Sandbox
Jul 17, 2015 2:20AM PDT

Hi,

I know little bit about sandbox. I use it sometimes.
See, What did I do with Sandbox is, "used for create small dummy c program to run on windows 7".
Actually, "Sandbox is an computing environment which facilitate software developers to test their own program code."