If my password manager can detect and save passwords from apps/sites, how can I be sure other apps won’t do the same thing?
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As others have mentioned: you can’t.
A way around this is using virtual system to execute questionable software. You can for example use https://www.virtualbox.org/ to run a virtual windows/linux/… whatever you need installation.
This virtual operating system is shielded from your main computer which provides several benefits and some drawbacks:
Benefits:
– Viruses and similar only infect the virtual system
– Programs in the virtual system cannot access files/data/… in your main operating system unless you specifically enable that
– You can run different versions of operating systems simultaneously
– You can easily create snapshots and roll back to them any time
Drawback:
– There is a performance loss, especially noticeable in games
– Not all hardware is supported/fully useable in the virtual machine
– It needs extra hard drive space
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