Sandbox

 

Sandbox lets you run applications in a safe virtual environment, isolated from the rest of your device’s system. This feature is useful when you want to run suspicious or untrusted applications without risk. Sandbox storage is a file space completely isolated from the rest of your system and other Sandboxes.

When you run an application in Sandbox, all necessary files are always copied to Sandbox storage where they can be modified as needed without affecting the original files. Any new files created during virtualization are also saved to Sandbox storage.

By default, Sandbox storage is created in the same drive as the original file. If there is insufficient space on the pre-selected drive or you encounter disk performance issues, you may need to select a different drive or browse for another location.

Sandbox is not available for macOS devices.

Sandbox Settings

You can access these settings by clicking Menu > Settings, then navigating to Protection > Sandbox.

Show Avast Sandbox in the Windows context menu: will add an option to Run this program in Sandbox when right-clicking on an application

Allow all virtualized applications to access the internet: enables all applications running in Sandbox to access the Internet, which could cause security issues

Save trusted downloaded files outside the sandbox: enables you to save any files downloaded from an application or browser inside Sandbox to locations on your device that are not virtualized

Adding Always Virtualized Applications

1. Navigate to Menu > Settings, then Protection > Sandbox
2. Click Add app
3. Do one of the following:
   • Select the application(s) from the list, then click Close
   • Click Select App Path and browse to the application .exe, then click Open

You can remove any item from this list by clicking the trash icon beside it.