Original author(s) Development status Active Platform IA-32 and x64 | Developer(s) Cybergenic Corporation Written in C++ | |
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Shade sandbox is a sandbox-based isolation program developed by Cybergenic corporation where the original author Eugene Balabanov stands as a co-founder. Shade is distributed to consumers as a freeware solution. It creates an isolated virtual environment within your computer: rather than running software and browsing the Internet directly, you can instead perform these actions through a fenced-off safe area. This mechanism creates a highly controlled environment for running untested or untrustworthy apps without threatening host operating system.
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Shade sandbox is basically a plugin for Cybergenic platform (formerly, BEST Platform which stands for Balabanov Eugene Security Toolkit Platform), which enables developers to build security-related solutions such as file monitors , API Spy utilities and, of course, virtual environments. The platform is available for corporate customers as vendor's site suggests. These are some capabilities the platform provides to plugins:
- Control over file system operations - Control over registry operations - A DLL injection mechanism so that plugins could alter processes behavior. For instance, Shade itself exploits this capability to draw a frame over "shaded" application windowsReception
Findmysoft has rated Cybergenic Shade 5 out of 5 stars, naming it Essential
Softpedia describes Shade as "Simple, yet reliable anti-virus protection"