Windows 11 catches a lot of flak for various reasons, which are most often fair. But it can be easy for some of the good things it does to get drowned out by the negativity, and one such good thing ...

Windows Sandbox is here to protect your PC. A simple, virtualized Windows within Windows, it’s a place where an app can be safely run if you’re worried it might be malware. Microsoft announced Windows ...

A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated ...

Microsoft is introducing a new Windows 10 feature that could make it a little safer to run random programs you download from the internet. It’s called Windows Sandbox, and basically a virtual machine ...

Windows Sandbox is an integrated element and is primarily designed to allow you to run untrusted and sketchy apps separate from the rest of the Windows 11 operating system. Enabling the feature and ...

It can be difficult to tell which apps are safe and trustworthy from the ones that aren't. Install an app that turns out to be malicious and there's no no way to back the clock. That may be changing ...

The web is a potentially dangerous place, we've known that for years and are reminded every time a family member brings over a laptop that needs 'fixing' (i.e., clean out the malware). Even savvy ...

Something to look forward to: Good news for anyone who has ever downloaded a suspicious executable file but didn't want to set up a virtual machine to run it safely: Microsoft has announced a new ...

You can never be too careful when it comes to opening files or email attachments from untrusted sources. Just one errant click could have disastrous results, which is why many people who aren't ...

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Microsoft announced the public preview launch of Win32 app isolation, a new Windows 11 security feature designed to sandbox Windows desktop applications using the Win32 API. Recently announced during ...