iCore OS virtulization for sandboxing

June 16, 2009 - PRLog -- Sandboxing is a popular technique for creating confined execution environments, which could be be used for running untrusted programs. In simple terms, sandboxing programms 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.

Sandboxes have been of interest to system researchers for a long time. But only recently popularity this technology among users is growing. It is explained the authors of malicious programs have become sophisticated, so classical instruments of security protection (antivirus software) became worse.

Sandbox software differs from classical security software, because it is proactive. Sandboxes can help you to raise the level of your computer security agains new, unfamous viruses, trojans, malware, spyware…

Today computer engineers built interesting realization of sanboxes. This environments range from those that look like a complete operating system environment, to those that provide a minimum level of isolation (to a few system calls, say).

Experts believe, that sandbox programs that use virtualization, the most reliable.   But the most people find that usual virtual machines is too inconvenient for sandboxing. It’s too slow, need many resourses. Unlike usual virtual machines iCore’ VMs work with the same speed as real Windows, have minimum overhead, use all power of your hardware.

iCore Virtual Accounts is OS level virtualization software that creates an isolated virtual environments on your PC within which other programs can run. Download iCore sandox program at http://icoresoftware.com.

One of use cases is sandboxing. If you infected with a virus or any malicious program while browsing Internet through Virtual Account, any such programs will stay inside of this virtual machine without spreading to the rest of your PC. By installing new software on the Virtual Account, you protect your operating system and data from potential damage by malicious software. Software installed on your VA do not affect performance, privacy, security or anything else on other virtual machines.

In accordance with the wishes of users iCore has plan to release a version of software that will be customize for sandboxing.

For more information, please visit http://icoresoftware.com/.

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iCore Software is a virtual computing company whose missionis to make home computing safe through easily adopted virtualization technology designed specifically for the home user. iCore develops and markets the first container-based virtualization (os virtualization) solution built on the Windows desktop, bringing the benefits of virtualization home. Product name is iCore Virtual Accounts, sandbox program.