Sandboxie Technologies (SBIE Open source) (VERSION 5.33.6 ONLY!)

I admit that I was not aware of this problem:

In David's thread about "Sandboxie Plus" Krabbath asked:

And David's answer is:

From this statement I conclude that using version 5.33.6 is a certain security risk. What do the experts think? Is this risk important so that one should change to David's fork (Sandboxie Plus) or can it be neglected and 5.33.6 can still be used without worries (until the issues will be fixed here in Tom's project too)?

 

In my opinion if you use Sandboxie in a normal way, for browsing news sites, forums, install programs from trustable sites, etc., you can stay with 5.33.6 until Tom releases his version and include security fixes.

If you use Sandboxie + BSA to do malware analysis, then updating to David's 5.42.0 is a must.

 

Thanks for your clear answer, Buster_BSA.

 

I wonder what kind of Sandboxie the following web-site is promoting?

Last Updated: 2020-07-11


https://yepdownload.com/sandboxie



Or the this one?

https://chromecastapp.net/sandboxie-2/

 

one is 5.12 i.e. old
and the other is fake or at least it tries to install you some sort of 3rd party downloader

 

Thank you.
It looks like an OPEN FIELD for malware specialists to abuse that "open source" Sandboxie.

 

Hi Zmech, this is nothing new. Fake versions of Sandboxie have been around for years. Before open source, they were made for people who didnt want to buy a license. This users looked for ways to get away from buying the license, and found fakes. And when they started experiencing issues, sometimes they even reported the issue at the old Sandboxie forum. It was funny to see this. Curt had told me about an infamous Russian fake SBIE version and what this users would eventually experience after installing this particular versions, so I knew how to spot this users when they reported experiencing the issue that was designed as (I guess it can be called) a counter attack from SBIE.

Bo

 

so what was it?

 

I found what happened to Sandboxie few weeks ago, glad and grateful someone kept it alive. Disappointend by sophos, just like other big companies, they first acquire a good software and then try to delete it.

thank you @bo elam

I see now everyone can create multiple sandboxes.. but in settings I still see "require registration" sometimes..where should we register sandboxie?

 

This is not what happened at all, I suggest your better inform yourself.

 

Oh thank you Sophos for deleting the old SBIE forum and website, what a nice suprise!

When someone does not know what to say, he says “better inform yourself”

 

He's right. If Sophos was just trying delete the product, thus eliminating the competition, they would not have released the source code for it!

 

Hi Dirk. You don't need to register anything. You just need to install a Sandboxie version that was released after Sandboxie became free. Last version released by Sophos was 5.33.6, you can get the installers from this link. It can be installed over the top, after updating SBIE, you ll be able to use multiple sandboxes at the same time.

Announcing Sandboxie 5.33.6 release and open source update - Sandboxie Forum (Read Only) - Sandboxie (Read Only) - Sophos Community

Bo

 

Thank you very much but I already have the latest version of sandboxie, I downloaded it days ago and installed it over the top

 

Is there a performance boost when opening different browsers in separate sandboxes? If so, how does one go about opening Firefox, say, in one sandbox and Brave, for example, in another one?

Thank you.

 

What you get when you run browsers (or programs) in separate sandboxes is better isolation, and you better the chances for this programs to work properly and smoothly in the sandbox.

You get better isolation because using dedicated sandboxes, allows you to tailor, setup each sandbox according to the dedicated program. You can restrict according to the specific program you created the sandbox for. Security can be setup more tight. Sandboxing is isolation, by using dedicated sandboxes you ll be isolating programs not only from the system but from other programs as well. More isolation is better isolation.

And you better the chances for program to work better or properly sandboxed because the chances of programs interfering with each other becomes almost 0. Sometimes one program might mess up another one. So, you better the chances for things to go smoothly.

Bo

 

Please anyone tell me, can I set the default settings for new users?

To immediately apply these settings to a new user on first start:

SbieCtrl_ShowWelcome=n
SbieCtrl_SettingChangeNotify=n
SbieCtrl_HideWindowNotify=n
SbieCtrl_ReloadConfNotify=n
SbieCtrl_EditConfNotify=n
SbieCtrl_EnableLogonStart=y
SbieCtrl_EnableAutoStart=y
SbieCtrl_AddDesktopIcon=n
SbieCtrl_AddQuickLaunchIcon=n
SbieCtrl_AddContextMenu=n
SbieCtrl_AddSendToMenu=n
SbieCtrl_AutoApplySettings=n

 

It has been a long time for me guys. Where to download Sandboxie these days? I lost track when Sophos took over. Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind I found it. Installed it, but it won't open.

 

No I installed one that I found on Github. Is that incorrect?

 

I don't think they wanted to acquire sandboxie. They acquired the company that at the time own sandboxie. They got sandboxie as a bonus in a way.

 

Bo,

Could you help us with the following?
We are trying to incorporate new Privazer to secure delete contents of Sandbox, but it's not working.
Maybe, you have some ideas?

Here is what Privazer advised to us:

C:\Program Files (x86)\PrivaZer \PrivaZer.exe" DELETE "%SANDBOX%"

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/privazer-discussion-thread.341840/page-93#post-2935074

 

Hi zmechys, I am not familiar with secure delete. I always used Sandboxie's own deleting process. But, read this 2 links, they should have the information you need to do what you want.

https://sandboxie-website-archive.github.io/www.sandboxie.com/DeleteSettings.html#command

https://sandboxie-website-archive.github.io/www.sandboxie.com/SecureDeleteSandbox.html

Bo

 

Thank you.