Sandboxie-Plus v1.0.11

My AVG Internet Security sub is expiring in a few weeks, and it seems to work ok with SB-Plus. Is there better AV software in terms of compatibility with SB-Plus?

Buying new licenses for AVG is the easiest for me (change the license number and no need to mess around uninstalling the old and installing the new). I have a year's McAfee Total Protection laying around unused though. And Windows Defender is in-built. Anything else recommended?

 

AVG is crapware (belongs to avast, avast and bullguard belong to NortonLifeLock). try to stick with the defender, it runs perfectly and causes no issues like other users has commented here enough. (in special browsers)

 

its re uploaded

 

Received. Thank you so much. FYI, I have not experienced any sandman(v1.1) crash (so far).

 

I've searched all over yonder in these threads and swear I can't find any instances where someone was requesting "as-basic-as-possible versions..." Unless this is merely your interpretation of what's been said in previous logs.

 

In a word-- Wow.

 

Well....OK. I am not saying this to you or anyone else who has already mastered Plus to his/her needs (as I have, believe it or not ). I am always referring to the newer users and the returnees who may find themselves in Plus and unsure how to proceed with even such a "simple" thing as boxing a default browser so that it opens with one left mouse click from the taskbar, let's say.

Sure, there's a support forum you can go to from the UI but it involves yet more clicks and if my patience is already stretched, I'm not in the mood to go click-clacking around and around. I suggest to put a short FAQ page under the Help header for one thing. I think that might go a ways in getting people up and running in a basic sense.

 

Are those types of people, who are not technologically inclined, even going to be using (or know of) sandboxie at all? Probably not. Regardless, I find it amusing that anyone here thinks they have a say in what will, or should happen, with sandboxie other than DavidXantos. We all have no say, or a right to have any say. We all need to stop acting like we do.

 

I was an avid fan and Sandboxie user back in the days when Tzuk was at the helm. From the get-go, Sandboxie was never a "basic" app to begin with. And now with all of these feature requests...
Kinda like putting on a shoe and tying it. But wait! Let's see if we have the option to recalibrate the shoelace holes, re-thread the shoelaces depending on the wearer's weight, and remote control the color
of the shoelaces depending on the weather or the mood for a day. Just tie your shoes and walk away already.

 

If you have declared a working default browser before you just need to pin that yellow "pizza-start-icon" (which is still there in Plus) to the task-bar and click on it. For me it was/is as simple as that - apart from pre-1.0.x-times where for some period "upgraded" Chromium-browsers wouldn't start any longer sandboxed without hassle.

Now if a change within a new browser version breaks compatibility I can hardly see how that could be DavidX's "fault" - and I think no-one here would think or say so. It has however been his undeserved fate to fix this as it makes little sense to say "Chromium is to blame". A top-dog, tech-giant product simply overruns a valuable niche-tool and doesn't care at all.

Those who regret the changes in Sbie since the "original-era" of Ronen Tzur must not forget that the original product - for which I'v bought a "lifelong" license aeons ago - wouldn't start and protect a single modern browser-version of today any more.

 

Why not simply stay put with the classic version then? No "unnecessary bells and whistles" there that I'm aware of. Just enough modifications to keep it going and Tzuk's trusted old (at times conglomerate-style) structure of the UI/SB-options - as the "real thing", Tzuk's original version, simply has been overrun by time, new OS- and browser-versions and has unfortunately been rendered dysfunctional since those days.

 

Users posting on GitHub, by my read, feel/think they have a say.
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie#documentation
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/issues
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/labels/Known issue
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/discussions
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/pulls
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/actions
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/labels?sort=count-desc

Regards w Respect

 

Oh, wow! Google as a source? Well that sure put me in my place! The guy who pays for the driver signing, which is not required on 99% of open source software gets to make the decisions. Period.

"Regards w Respect"

 

Until this morning, discord would launch fine in a sandboxed window, however it is now displaying this error when trying to run:

https://imgur.com/MgcVN7O

Using Sandboxie Plus x64-v.1.0.11
Any ideas?

 

I know some people would like what you are saying here to be so.....but it ain't so. In fact, Edge starts and runs better now under Sandboxie 5.33.6 than it did a year ago and more. I am not looking for an argument, but wanted to point this out.

Other people know this but maybe you dont. Since Dec 2010 the only protection I used in my computers is Sandboxie (and NoScript), nothing else, not even WD. The protection I am getting from SBIE5.33.6 now is as solid as what it was years ago (no infections).



Bo

 

at least Ronen had no time to fix all the security issues which where addressed by David. sandboxie is no allmighty weapon, its just a sandbox and i ever stated its not made for regular usage. it can raise security but at least with no modifications or restrictions - what i assume for the mass of users out there - that gain is pretty low. Remember the original name: SandBoxIE !

 

Thanks for setting the record straight. I wasn't aware of that and the truth should always prevail. On the other hand v5.33.6 is hardly a specimen of the "original-era-versions" by Tzuk I've been talking about.

And "Edge"? <Irony on> What would that be? Hmmm. Must have heard that term somewhere... Doesn't sound like something residing on my PC. Perhaps I should google it. <Irony off>

 

I didn't read whole of the discussion, but this doesn't sound like a bad idea. At the moment I'm still using the Sandboxie Classic version, hopefully in the future I might switch to SBIE Plus. And I agree, it shouldn't become too cluttered, but I haven't checked it out recently.

 

Figured it out, for anyone having the same issue in future. Delete the entire sandbox, and remake it. The issue was a blocked update file that embedded into the settings and was unable to be reversed.

 

The story behind the name goes like this. Tzuk chose the name SandboxIE because in the very early stages of developing, when Sandboxie was only an idea in his mind, the program he used to test what he was coming up with in his mind was Internet Explorer. This was in the early 2000's. At the time, IE was the browser.

In fact, IE was the browser he was using when he got hit by spyware. He was so angry with this infection that he decided to do something about it. This something......became SBIE.

At first sandboxing was only an idea, over time it became the program. He used IE to test (remember, he was using IE when he was infected), after getting IE to work under SBIE (he named the program at this time), he figured that if IE could run under SBIE, he could get other programs like PDF Readers, and EMail clients to do the same, and that was the beginning of SBIE, why it was named the way it was and how it became an Application sandbox instead of just a browser sandbox.

Bo

 

@bo elam Thanks for the insight, Bo. I recall that same origination story, too.

 

You are welcome, happy memories.

Bo

 

Anyone know what Tzuk did after he gave up Sandboxie?