Sandboxie Plus 1.16.9 / Classic 5.71.9

Run programs in a sandbox to prevent malware from making permanent changes to your PC. Sandboxie allows you to run your browser, or any other program, so that all changes that result from the usage are kept in a sandbox environment, which can then be deleted later.

Sandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation software for 32- and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems. It is being developed by David Xanatos since it became open source, before that it was developed by Sophos (which acquired it from Invincea, which acquired it earlier from the original author Ronen Tzur). It creates a sandbox-like isolated operating environment in which applications can be run or installed without permanently modifying the local or mapped drive. An isolated virtual environment allows controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing.

Sandboxie is available in two flavors Plus and Classic. Both have the same core components, this means they have the same level of security and compatibility. What"s different is the user interface the Plus build has a modern Qt based UI which supports all new features that have been added since the project went open source. The Classic build has the old no longer developed MFC based UI, hence it lacks support for modern features, these features can however still be used when manually configured in the Sandboxie.ini.

Sandboxie Plus 1.16.9 / Classic 5.71.9 release notes:

Added

added Norwegian Bokmål translations #5141 (thanks divinity76)
added user interface: highlight last used box #5054

Changed

added "ClosedClsid={9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39}" to the default COM template to block ShellWindows

Fixed

fixed incompatibility with Thunderbird 146
fixed no sound in confidential boxes without the "less confidential template"
fixed issues with proxy tester (failed on non-English Windows due to the localization of ping.exe)
fixed WinMerge keeps freezing because of registry reading issues #5122
fixed running Firefox under Sandboxie causes AppModel-Runtime error(s) in Event Viewer #5135
fixed Tor Browser tabs crash in highest security level #5116
fixed Chrome Portable window tooltip gets stuck #5051
fixed BSOD (0x50) in SbieDrv.sys during high-load GPU process creation on Windows Server 2022 #5149
fixed OfficeClickToRun.exe always crash, WINWORD.EXE can not work properly #5153
fixed prolonged lag when uninstalling/deleting software installed exclusively within the sandbox environment #5028

For a full list of changes please review the change log.

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