What is Browser Sandbox Protection and How Does it Help?

QUICK HEAL TECHNOLOGIES

Understanding the Web Browser Arena

• Understanding the web browser

• Internet Threats

• Eye-opener

• Web based Attacks

• What is Browser Sandbox?

The Web Browser

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content.

Popular web browsers include Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari.

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Nowadays, you cannot really tell if a website is clean or riddled with malicious codes. Merely visiting a webpage can automatically drop a malicious code in your PC.

And this may not only happen in case of lesser known websites. Even trusted and genuine websites are compromised by hackers to target unaware users.

The Threats that Lurk on the Internet

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• PC starts behaving abnormally

• Blinking popups start appearing all over your screen

• Default search engine gets changed to something else

• Your social media account starts showing unauthorized activities

If your PC starts showing all these symptoms, odds are you have been a victim of web-based attack

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Web-Based Attacks

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What Could be the Solution?

Such threats that usually occur without any prior warning, can be effectively

dealt with a proactive security feature such as Browser Sandbox.

What is Browser Sandbox?

Browser Sandbox Protection or ‘Browser Sandboxing’ is a security technique that creates a virtual environment and executes your Internet browsers within this environment inside your PC.

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What Does that Mean?

• Once Sandbox is activated, it takes your Internet browser into a virtual environment.

• Any file that you download or gets downloaded from the browser, remains isolated in the sandbox environment.

• So, even if any infection does take place from the download, it will remain confined inside the virtual environment without affecting the real PC.

And once you close the browser, any changes that might have occurred in the

environment will be deleted.

This way your actual PC remains unaffected

Quick Heal offersBrowser Sandbox

Protectionas one of its

inbuilt features

About Quick Heal’s Sandbox Protection

Quick Heal offers sandbox protection as one of its inbuilt features

With Quick Heal Browser Sandbox, you can control browser access to your personal data on the computer. For this you have options to:

• Prevent Internet browsers from accessing confidential folders.

• Prevent Internet browsers from modifying protected data.

• Allow browsers to store all downloads in a specified folder.

At the present time, the most threatening aspect of malware is their evolving nature. Dealing with such threats should not only involve the best damage

control approach but proactive security as well.

After all, keeping the milk from spilling over is always better than mopping it.

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