A help-desk technician needs to analyze an unfamiliar executable that a user downloaded from the Internet. To avoid risking infection of the company laptop, the technician spins up a local virtual machine configured as a sandbox. In this context, what is the primary purpose of running the executable inside the sandboxed VM?
To test software in a secure, isolated environment without affecting the host system.
To act as the user's main production desktop for everyday tasks.
To permanently increase CPU resources available for production workloads.
To provide extra disk capacity to the host by mounting virtual drives.
A sandboxed virtual machine creates an isolated environment that behaves like a real operating system but is completely separated from the host. Executables run only inside the VM's constrained resources, so any malicious or unstable behavior cannot change files, settings, or memory on the physical computer or the production network. This makes sandboxing ideal for safely testing untrusted software. By contrast, using a VM to add CPU capacity, serve as a user's everyday desktop, or act as extra storage for the host does not address the security and isolation benefits that define a sandbox.
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