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I'm using an Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to install Sandboxie on Ubuntu. I used it on Windows, so I'm comfortable with it.

How can I install Sanboxie on Ubuntu? If that is not possible then are there any others like it which I can use? Please share the installation procedures for the alternatives!

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    If I recall, Sandboxie uses drivers to isolate processes, which is why it doesn't work in Wine. I used it many years ago as well before I made the switch. Linux has a type of sandboxing support called LXC -- Linux containers. Essentially, it's like running a virtual machine on the host machine itself but allows logical separation between process. So, you'd essentially run a second Ubuntu alongside your real OS. Programs runs from this second can only modify files in the second instance. Does that sound like something you'd like to learn about?
    – Chuck R
    May 2, 2015 at 12:49
  • I suppose I should also ask about what you intend to use this sandbox for? I know Sandboxie allowed you to run a private browsing session before such support was integrated into most major browsers. Is there a particular use case that you're looking at?
    – Chuck R
    May 2, 2015 at 12:51
  • Truth is I don't exactly know what Sandboxie really does. I know it's a virtual machine and I was hoping it will allow me to play windows games which aren't supported by PlayOnLinux. Basically like an alternative to wine. Tell me if I'm wrong.
    – SY_13
    May 3, 2015 at 13:22
  • This post was actually written by a friend who reccomended using sandboxie and so he typed the question.
    – SY_13
    May 3, 2015 at 13:24
  • Sandboxie isn't a virtual machine, it's a container. It basically runs a program in isolation. The program can still read all your system files, but any changes that it makes to files stay within it's container. So, if it were to modify C:\windows\system32\shell32.dll (as many viruses do) the change would instead get written to a new file in, say, C:\Users[username]\Sandboxie\virusfolder\Windows\System32\shell32.dll. Any time the program asks for the file it would get that version instead.
    – Chuck R
    May 3, 2015 at 21:11

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My suggestion is to use native applications like Gnu/Linux.

Cuckoo Sandbox

Is a modular, automated malware analysis system. Running from command-line on a Linux or Mac host, it uses python and virtualization (VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM, etc) to create an isolated Windows guest environment to safely and automatically run and analyze files to collect comprehensive file behavior analysis. These results outline what the malware does while running inside an isolated Windows operating system, including Win32 API calls, files created/deleted, memory dumps, network traffic trace, screenshots of execution behavior, and full memory dumps of virtual machines.

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Firejail

Is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table.

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R&S®Browser in the Box (formerly BitBox)

The Virtual Environment for secured and comfortable Web Browsing: On the basis of a “Browser-in-the-Box” concept a virtual machine is provided with a reduced operating system and a web browser encapsulated therein. Malware can’t thus penetrate the host operating system and potential damage in the separated virtual machine will vanish with each start of the browser by returning to a certified starting point. All of that is fully transparent to the user. Is basically Firefox in a Virtual Machine.

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Source: https://alternativeto.net/software/sandboxie/

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