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It depends on one’s own opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of the two programs, which in turn depend partly on one’s personal taste and circumstances.
I decided on the paid Sandboxie plus a free third-party firewall, two free AVs, and a free behavior monitor, instead of the Avast! all-in-one because
- I’m underwhelmed both by the reliability of Avast and the attitude of their support people and management, and favorably impressed by both the Sandboxie software and Sandboxie support, and
- My setup is much, much cheaper - $40 on unlimited number of personal home machines forever and ever. I often have two or three machines, but at the moment have four, and could occasionally have five.
I chose the paid version of Sandboxie over the free one because other members of my family use some of the machines sometimes. If they cannot use SB without enabling it manually each session for each program, they will end up frequently using their software unprotected. I suppose that I could use scripts to force some programs to run only with Sandboxie, but even the splash screen might annoy them enough to bypass SB. If you want people to use your security setups without bypassing them, you have to make them convenient. I could make it difficult to disable a scripted Sandboxie, but I have both practical and symbolic reasons not to do this.
There is no reason why one solution has to be better for everybody, and the other worse for everybody. Sometimes it’s better to leave people with the power of choice. I just ate a large breakfast every course of which my spouse would find revolting.
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