Sandboxie Plus 1.17.7 / Classic 5.72.7

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 1.17.7 / Classic 5.72.7 release notes:

Added

• added a Global Settings checkbox for ForceBoxDocs under Program Control > Force Process Options

Changed

• disabled rich text acceptance in 'Edit ini Section' baa6968
• extended completion system with context-aware filtering, improved INI key resolution, regex updates, and tooltip placement enhancements 6db2a04

Fixed

• fixed crash in VMware when running inside sandbox caused by NtQueryDirectoryObject hook returning non-null-terminated strings and uninitialized padding bytes in OBJECT_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION structures, which caused QueryDosDeviceW to crash in wcscmp #5390
• Add short-name fallback cache and heuristics #5404
• fixed addon setup not working introduced in a recent build
• fixed Starting from version 1.17.4, using the 'Sandbox with Data Protection' type box causes PowerShell to wait indefinitely, while there is no such bug with other types. #5408
• fixed Importing encrypted box no longer creates encrypted image in v1.17.6 #5399
• fixed EditorSettings fuzzy matching not applied, showing few/no completion entries, and table cell highlighting not updating
• fixed Error enumerating and deleting folder. #5406
• fixed black box import/export when 'ProtectAdminOnly=y' (default) and SandMan does not run as admin

Download: Sandboxie Plus (64-bit) | 23.3 MB (Open Source)
Download: Sandboxie Classic (64-bit) | 3.0 MB
Links: Sandboxie Website | GitHub | ARM64 | Screenshot

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