Top Alternatives to Shadow Defender

Sandboxie is a powerful privacy protection and security utility that creates isolated environments, known as sandboxes, to run programs. This prevents any changes made by those programs from affecting your system, safeguarding against malware, unwanted installations, and tracking.

Reboot Restore Rx is a freeware system restore utility that protects workstation drives by restoring them to a predefined baseline on every reboot. It creates a virtual partition and redirects all system changes, ensuring a clean and stable environment with each system restart.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a powerful system protection utility that creates a virtual environment, allowing users to test software, browse risky websites, and make system changes without affecting the actual operating system. It provides instant restoration, undoing all made changes upon reboot, ensuring your system remains clean and safe.

Clean Slate provides robust hard drive protection by discarding unwanted user changes upon log off or reboot. It operates without partition requirements, offering effortless Windows and AV updates, easy application control, and flexible, on-the-fly configuration without system restarts.

Lethe is a GPL-licensed Partition Freezing software designed to create a non-persistent operating system environment. It functions by freezing a partition, ensuring that all changes made during a session are discarded upon reboot, providing a clean slate. This free and open-source tool is particularly useful for public access computers or testing environments.

Firejail is a SUID sandbox program for Linux that uses namespaces, seccomp-bpf, and capabilities to restrict the execution environment of untrusted applications, significantly reducing the attack surface.