Developer Sophos announced the official open source Sandboxie , and announced the complete source code of Sandboxie on the official website.
Sandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT operating systems. The program was released in 2004 and was originally a tool for sandboxing Internet Explorer. Over time, it has expanded to support other browsers and any Win32 application. It creates an isolated operating environment similar to a sandbox, where you can run or install applications without permanently modifying local or mapped drives. The isolated virtual environment allows controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing.
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In February 2017, Sophos acquired Sandboxie from Invincea. In September last year, Sandboxie announced that it had changed from paid software to free software; at that time, its developers stated that it would plan to open source this software.
The latest version of Sandboxie for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 is V5.33.3. Sophos has released all features reserved for the commercial version of Sandboxie in this version. Now, the source code version is 5.40.
The company plans to shut down the license server and Sandboxie community forum on June 1, 2020. Therefore, any further improvements to Sandboxie need to be made through the open source community.
Regarding driver signing, Sophos pointed out that Microsoft requires all drivers to be signed, so it is also necessary to sign Sandboxie's drivers. If you are using a signed driver version, you can update other components and put the file as a replacement file, the only condition is that the "Version
At the same time, it also requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 to compile the code. For more instructions on compiling source code and downloading applications, please visit its official website .