mbox Alternatives

mbox is described as 'Mbox is a lightweight sandboxing mechanism that any user can use without special privileges in commodity operating systems' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to mbox for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Android and Python apps. The best mbox alternative is Cuckoo Sandbox, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mbox are Firejail, ANY.RUN, Shadow Defender and Qu1cksc0pe.

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  1. Cuckoo Sandbox icon
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    Cuckoo Sandbox is a modular, automated malware analysis system. Running from command-line on a Linux or Mac host, it uses python and virtualization (VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM, etc) to create an isolated Windows guest environment to safely and automatically run and analyze files to...

    32 Cuckoo Sandbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
     
    • Cuckoo Sandbox is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to mbox.

    • Cuckoo Sandbox is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to mbox.

    • Cuckoo Sandbox is Free and Open Sourcembox is also Free and Open Source
  2. Firejail icon
     36 likes

    Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

    20 Firejail alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. ANY.RUN icon
     18 likes

    ANY.RUN is interactive sandbox simplifies malware analysis of threats that target both Windows and Linux systems. ANY.RUN's threat intelligence products, TI Lookup, Yara Search and Feeds, help you find IOCs or files to learn more about the threats and respond to incidents faster.

    35 ANY.RUN alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Shadow Defender icon
     30 likes

    Uses virtualized Shadow Mode on Windows to redirect all system changes, blocks malware and unwanted modifications, allows selective saving of folders or files, easily restores the system after reboot, and works in home, business, or public environments without performance loss.

    13 Shadow Defender alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Shadow Defender is the most popular commercial alternative to mbox.

    • Shadow Defender is Paid and Proprietarymbox is Free and Open Source
  5. Qu1cksc0pe icon
     2 likes

    All-in-One malware analysis tool for analyze many file types, from Windows binaries to E-Mail files.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
  6. SHADE Sandbox icon
     17 likes

    SHADE Sandbox is an alternative for antivirus and a tool for virtualization. It locally virtualizes applications (i.e. internet browsers) and locks all incoming internet files and possible viruses in its safe virtual environment - a “sandbox”, keeping them isolated from the...

    15 SHADE Sandbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Threat.Zone icon
     2 likes

    Threat.Zone is a hypervisor-based, automated and interactive tool for analyzing malware, you can fight new generation malwares.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Threat.Zone is the most popular SaaS alternative to mbox.

    • Threat.Zone is Freemium and Proprietarymbox is Free and Open Source
  8. The Virtual Environment for secured and comfortable Web Browsing: On the basis of a “Browser-in-the-Box” concept a virtual machine is provided with a reduced operating system and a web browser encapsulated therein.

    91 R&S Browser in the Box alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Clean Slate icon
     21 likes

    Restores your computer to its original configuration discarding unwanted computer changes. Just log off or reboot. Clean Slate is easy yet powerful.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Bubblewrap icon
     2 likes

    Unprivileged sandboxing tool.

    18 Bubblewrap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. X-Ray icon
     6 likes

    X-Ray is a software that automates submission of files that you think is suspicious to 35 antivirus companies* for manual analysis by virus analyst professionals with a click of a button.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. WinJail icon
     1 like

    Sandboxing software for Windows OS WinJail is full implementation of chroot, with additional features like "copy-on-write" mechanism applied to chroot'ed files, additional registry based chroot, and more.

    WinJail has templates that can be applied for all applicatio.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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