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Sandboxie Plus 1.6.0 / 5.61.0 Classic – FREE
(48 votes, 3.90 out of 5)Sandboxie is a proprietary sandbox based isolation program for Windows operating systems. It creates a sandbox-like isolated operating environment.
There you can run or install all applications without permanently modifying the local or mapped drive. An isolated virtual environment allows to control testing of untrusted programs and web surfing.
Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space. It prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations.
Sandboxie changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk.
- Intercept changes to both your files and registry settings, making it virtually impossible for any software to reach outside the sandbox.
- Traps cached browser items into the sandbox as a by-product of normal operation. So when you throw away the sandbox, all the history records and other side-effects of your browsing disappear as well.
Benefits of the Isolated Sandbox:
- Secure Web Browsing. If you run Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie, all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially.
- Enhanced Privacy. Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don’t leak into Windows.
- Secure E-mail. Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can’t break out of the sandbox and can’t infect your real system.
- Windows Stays Lean. Prevent wear-and-tear in Windows by installing software into an isolated sandbox.
Changes in Sandboxie Plus 1.6.0 / 5.61.0 Classic:
Added
- added ability to import/export boxes into 7z files
- added new update mechanism allowing for incremental updates
— used for nightly test builds in the “live” update channel
— used to update Templates.ini and translations after installation
Changed
- restructured the box context menu a bit
- SandMan translations are now compressed and located in translations.7z
Fixed
- fixed issue with recycle icon not updated in time
- fixed issue with “index out of range”
- fixed issue starting SandMan after install
- fixed encoding issue with my_version.h
- fixed issue with empty group blinking sequence
Changes in Sandboxie Plus 1.5.3 / 5.60.3 Classic:
Added
- boxes set to auto-delete are now marked with a small red recycle symbol
- added Vietnamese language on Plus UI
Fixed
- fixed issue with box options
- fixed issue with Smart App Control
- fixed issue with snapshots when using privacy boxes
- fixed issue with m_pColorslider change not applied
- fixed issue with switching snapshots when the file panel is open
- fixed issue with file panel when an empty box is selected
- fixed issue with menu icon not being disabled
- fixed compatibility issue with Microsoft Edge
- fixed UsePrivacyMode=y compatibility with Windows 7
- fixed minor issue during Sandboxie Plus uninstall
- fixed BSOD issue when driver initialization fails (introduced in 1.5.1)
- fixed fake paths being listed even if true paths do not exist
- fixed issue with Firefox 106.x requesting write access to plugin executables
Homepage – https://www.sandboxie.com
Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP – Windows 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
Translations: English, Albanian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian and Turkish.