nyrna VS Windows-Sandbox-Utilities

Someone pointed me in the direction of "Nyrna", which looks promising! https://nyrna.merritt.codes/ (Can download a free trial from the MS Store)

please try https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna and let me know how well it works.

It currently only works on X11 but Nyrna seems like it's made for this use case

Nyrna - Used for suspending the active application with a hotkey

If on PC, recommend using Nyrna : https://nyrna.merritt.codes/ . You can set the hotkey to the Pause/Break button on your keyboard, and it will force the current application (eg Hogwarts Legacy) to pause midcutscene and show the desktop till hit the hotkey again.

Here's an application for Windows: https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna

- Download the application "Nyrna" from https://nyrna.merritt.codes/. Download page located in the top right, select the version for your operating system (for this guide, I am using Windows 10)

But there is maybe a way to solve this problem. While looking for a solution i stumbled over the programm Nyrna which allows to suspend programs. You could in theory freeze the game at one point and send your computer in stand-by / hibernation and continue the next day. But i have not experimented much with it.

There is a 3rd party program, Nyrna. It lets you pause any game at any point, keep it in RAM without using up any other resources, then get back to it whenever you want to.

Windows has a lot of things in this department. https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Sandbox-Utilities sounds similar to what you describe, but there are also finer-grained APIs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/app...

You could use the Windows Sandbox to prevent them from accessing anything sensitive on your computer. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

If you're unsure about a program's security (and you have 10 Pro), run it in Sandbox mode. Otherwise, download VMWare Workstation and create a virtual machine.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

Windows Sandbox is literally made for this, is lighter, integrated into the OS and free.

He directed me to start a browser, which I did inside Windows Sandbox (a new lightweight container-based VM-ish on Windows). He asked me to go to "9190.org" in the browser, enter the invoice number. That downloads a "ScreenShareClientRefund.exe" which he instructed me to start. At that point I told him "Nice try, scammer! That would have fooled a lot of people." He hung up - no drama.

Windows Sandbox is a feature of Windows 10+. If you use older or can't use it for some reason, get VirtualBox and make a VM without any network access.

Do you think he is confusing the partial sandboxing of Windows Defender with Windows Sandbox? If so, why?