Sandboxie 3.65 beta

chris1341 · Mar 4, 2012

For those interested the 3.65 beta series has been started a week or so. Now at 3.65.03

http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12517

A few interesting changes including reworked Chrome sandbox compatibility and installing apps in a sandbox under LUA improved so far.

As Always works great for me

Cheers

chris1341 · Mar 7, 2012

..........and .04

http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12517

Cheers

chris1341 · Mar 8, 2012

Tzuk said:

Sandboxie includes the settings ReadFilePath and ReadKeyPath which force some paths to be considered as "read only". This means that a program in the sandbox cannot modify existing files (keys) or create new files (keys) that match the specified paths

Version 3.65.04 introduces two counterpart settings, WriteFilePath and WriteKeyPath which force some paths to be considered "write only". This means that a program in the sandbox will not see any files (keys) outside the sandbox which match the specified paths, but the program can create new files (keys) in the sandbox.

WriteFilePath and WriteKeyPath also translate internally to ClosedFilePath and ClosedKeyPath settings, respectively.

As a simple example, setting the browser cookies folder to read-only, means the browser in the sandbox can see all the cookies that already exist outside the sandbox, but can't update existing cookies or create any new cookies.

Setting the browser cookies folder to write-only, means the browser in the sandbox doesn't see any of the cookies outside the sandbox, but can create new cookies as necessary.

This feature may also be useful to "hide" existing installations of programs, for example.

Version 3.65.04 does not yet include this feature in Sandbox Settings pages, but I wanted to put this feature out there now so if anyone is interested, they can start experimenting with it and report any problems.

One last small note: The feature works only for folders. If you specify WriteFilePath=c:\path\to\some\file, then it's the same as specifying ClosedFilePath=c:\path\to\some\file, without any of the write-only benefits.
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chris1341 · Mar 15, 2012

.....and .05

http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12517

Tzuk said:

People using Sandboxie on Windows 7 may have noticed that clicking jump list items associated with a sandboxed program can start another copy of the program outside the sandbox.

(The jump list is a pop-up menu which appears when you right-click a taskbar button or icon in Windows 7. In most cases, it shows the program name and a close command. Programs can customize the jump list by adding more commands.)

The new copy of the program starts outside the sandbox because it is actually Windows (more specifically, Windows Explorer) which starts the new copy, and not the program itself. The jump list contains information which tells Windows Explorer which programs to start.

Version 3.65.05 overrides jump lists for programs in the sandbox so that it can display the sandbox name in the jump list, and tell Windows Explorer that new copies of the program should also start in the same sandbox.

This has the side effect that if the program does try to customize its jump list, then any such customizations are lost, and Windows will only display the default jump list with minimal options.

To account for this, Sandboxie will not override the jump list for programs which start as a forced program. The rationale is that because the program was forced, clicking its jump list items will run additional copies in the sandbox due to the forced program mechanism, so there is no need for special handling.

The other condition is that the sandbox does not allow direct access to the folder where jump list customization files are stored. If your sandbox settings include this folder, then you probably want programs in the sandbox to be able to customize their jump lists, so Sandboxie will leave the jump lists as they are also in this case.

The jump list customization folders is %Recent%\CustomDestinations and there is a new setting in Sandbox Settings > Applications > Miscellaneous which adds full access to this folder and a second associated folder
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Tzuk said:

A second (less important) issue with the taskbar before version 3.65.05 is that multiple windows of the program would be grouped together regardless of sandbox. Suppose you have Firefox running in five sandboxes, hovering over one of the Firefox taskbar buttons would show windows from all instances of Firefox together. This is also changed in version 3.65.05, such that windows from separate sandboxes will not be combined into the same group of windows.
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The best keeps getting better!

Cheers

chris1341 · Mar 19, 2012

.06 rapidly followed by .07 now available.

http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12517

Cheers

lws · Mar 19, 2012

Thanks for all these updates. Much appreciated

chris1341 · Mar 20, 2012

lws said:

Thanks for all these updates. Much appreciated
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No problem, here's some more - both .08 and.09 issued in the last 24 hours. Same links as before.

Boy, Tzuk's working fast!

Cheers

chris1341 · Mar 21, 2012

and now .10. Fix for some 'esoteric' issues.

Cheers

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