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Microsoft puts Windows Defender in a sandbox

October 29, 2018

MICROSOFT IS PLANNING make Defender, its Windows-integrated malware package, just a little more credible with the arrival of an option to run it inside a sandbox, making it far less likely to cause bigger problems for your machine.

The new sandboxed version will quarantine the dodgy code inside the sandbox, meaning it can’t infect the main operating system more thoroughly.

Sandboxing itself is easy enough. The difficulty comes from making sure that the constant stream of data in and out of the protected environment doesn’t cause a significant system degradation.

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