[zbendefy]

My takeaway is that sandboxing should be more readily available, and integrated into the OS.

I used sandboxie a while ago for stuff like this, but afaik windows has some sandbox built into it since a few years which I didnt think about until now.

[lillesvin]

Yeah, Windows Sandbox is available on Win 10/11 Pro and Enterprise and it's actually pretty neat. I used to use it in a previous job where I was forced to run Windows.

However, I think OP might be using WSL and I'm not sure that's available in Sandbox.

[RGamma]

Windows Sandbox looks like an alpha. It's nowhere near where Microsoft's valuation is.

That said with enough attacks of this kind we may actually get real security progress (and a temporary update freeze maybe), fucking finally.