Microsoft Windows 10 Defender Antivirus And Anti-Malware Enhances Secure Sandbox Feature

It's not common to find free software that seems to be as feature-rich and capable as commercial competition, but in terms of Windows Defender, it's probably one of the best antivirus and anti-virus solutions. free anti-malware on the market. Many people are so confident that they do not even have an additional antivirus solution. Microsoft takes this responsibility very seriously by constantly iterating the features of the software.

In a brand new version of Windows Insider, you can find a major redesign of Defender. After years of searching for the best direction for Defender, Microsoft decided that sandboxing was the only sensible solution, a technique we've used in many software applications, even in our web browsers.

Windows Security Center in Windows 10, including the Defender feature

Microsoft notes that redefining Defender to use sandboxes was not an easy task, but it was an important way to spend a lot of effort as a developer, as it could actually save bacon (or vegetarian bacon) of someone if he was hit by malware. In case of threat, Defender will now keep it in the sandbox, preventing infection of the rest of the system and spreading corruption.

Microsoft acknowledges that one of the reasons sandboxes were eventually introduced is that the current architecture would confer an elevation of privilege, although the official blog post indicates that there is no sign of the exploitation of the design (and that it is extremely difficult to remove). According to this post, getting out of a sandbox is "much more difficult on the latest versions of Windows 10".

Protecting applications in Windows Defender

For Joe or Jill, setting up a sandbox may not seem like much of a challenge, but there are some extremely important precautions to take. Of course, a sandbox still requires access to the main system, which means that performance may be slowed down if there is too much back and forth between the operating system. host and the sandbox of Defender. This while ensuring that the implementation is as secure as possible.

Challenges include reducing I / O costs, which is extremely important for older hardware and involves knowing more precisely which data is extracted from a potentially infected file, rather than to analyze everything. You can imagine how defender would be hungry if you wanted to extract a large archive; Defender can already slow down this basic process, and sandboxing could make it worse. That's not to say that you would complain too much of the performance impact it manages to keep your PC safe.

If you are running the most recent preview version of Windows 10, you should be able to access the initial version of this Sandbox-compatible Defender right now. For the rest of us, we have to wait for many beta tests to be done. And after the debacle of the October updates, it is smarter than ever to adopt the "more sure to wait" attitude with regard to new Windows features.