Many people have worried that one day, they will click on FUD virus, and their system is compromised, sometimes without them even knowing. It “looks” like a legit software, no antivirus flags, no suspicious behaviour. So how do you tell if its bad or good?
One way is to analyze it using a service like Virustotal. Another way is to Sandbox it.
Sandboxing is a the process of running a application isolated, so you can run and monitor the programs activities without it digitally touching any part of your computer. A program that does this is Sandboxie.
After you install the program, you will see a box similar to the one above. All you have to do is drag a program into the open program window, it will automatically be sandboxed, then run. You will see each program that starts up, and each DLL that is called upon. When you quit the program, you will have no trace on your computer that indicated it ran in the first place.
The people that use this are mainly security researchers, who needs to run a certain piece of malware to see what it does.
Hackers and virus authors will also use this program to test other viruses, and use them for their own purposes. This software can be used for both good and evil but helps you work out what could possibly compromise your computer without incurring any of the side effects from running it live.
