Sandboxie is now FREE

dogmaryxx

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING SANDBOXIE VERSIONS


Sophos is excited to announce that we are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to an open source tool.

This new evolution of Sandboxie is one we are enthusiastic about, but that does not mean this was an easy decision to make. Sandboxie has never been a significant component of Sophos’ business, and we have been exploring options for its future for a while.

Frankly, the easiest and least costly decision for Sophos would have been to simply end of life Sandboxie. However, we love the technology too much to see it fade away. More importantly, we love the Sandboxie community too much to do that. The Sandboxie user base represents some of the most passionate, forward thinking, and knowledgeable members of the security community and we didn’t want to let you down.

After thoughtful consideration we decided that the best way to keep Sandboxie going was to give it back to its users – transitioning it to an open source tool. We will release more information about the open source project as we continue to work on the details.

Until the open source transition is completed we have decided to make all restricted features of Sandboxie completely free

https://www.sandboxie.com/

A.Penny.Saved

In other words they are stopping supporting Sandboxie shortly after purchasing it. Any further updates will have to be done by the user community.

I hope that this all features being free extends to earlier versions which I still have to use because later versions would not work how they claimed. Testing in a vitual machine is not 100% identical to a real operating system in my experience. The version that I am using is the final version which does what I require. Any later version will not work. Tested on multiple windows installs with the same result!

I do have a paid for license BTW.

EveryWhere

A.Penny.Saved wrote: »

In other words they are stopping supporting Sandboxie shortly after purchasing it. Any further updates will have to be done by the user community.

I hope that this all features being free extends to earlier versions which I still have to use because later versions would not work how they claimed. Testing in a vitual machine is not 100% identical to a real operating system in my experience. The version that I am using is the final version which does what I require. Any later version will not work. Tested on multiple windows installs with the same result!

I do have a paid for license BTW.

Which is the latest good version that you utilise?

onomatopoeia99

A.Penny.Saved wrote: »

Testing in a vitual machine is not 100% identical to a real operating system in my experience.

That is inevitable. VMWare ESXi / vSphere running bare metal rather than hosted gives an environment that is very close though, and for all but some very specific hardware interactions should be sufficient.

A.Penny.Saved

EveryWhere wrote: »

Which is the latest good version that you utilise?

I'm using 5.22. Anything newer does not work with my firefox extensions. I have had so much messing around with it that I just will not waste any further time on it so I stay with 5.22. Barb tried it and and found it worked for her? in a vm. Anything newer than 5.22 has never functioned on numerous windows installs. They stopped supporting anything but the latest version since they moved forums. Barb did do a little investigation on the old forum when I was using an older version than 5.22. 5.22 is the limit though, nothing newer works with my browser and keyfox. I do not use any recent Firefox browsers and keyfox is an older version. The keyfox icon just turns dark and does not respond to keepass being opened. I had so many problems with it I just gave up and stopped at 5.22. I just cannot afford to waste the time.

Then there was their forum mess up after it was purchased by sophos which I don't think was ever fixed. They stopped supporting anything but the latest version. Therefore it looks like they cut it loose, probably because of all the paid license holders which they are unlikely to get any money from.

EveryWhere

A.Penny.Saved wrote: »

I'm using 5.22. Anything newer does not work with my firefox extensions. I have had so much messing around with it that I just will not waste any further time on it so I stay with 5.22. Barb tried it and and found it worked for her? in a vm. Anything newer than 5.22 has never functioned on numerous windows installs. They stopped supporting anything but the latest version since they moved forums. Barb did do a little investigation on the old forum when I was using an older version than 5.22. 5.22 is the limit though, nothing newer works with my browser and keyfox. I do not use any recent Firefox browsers and keyfox is an older version. The keyfox icon just turns dark and does not respond to keepass being opened. I had so many problems with it I just gave up and stopped at 5.22. I just cannot afford to waste the time.

Then there was their forum mess up after it was purchased by sophos which I don't think was ever fixed. They stopped supporting anything but the latest version. Therefore it looks like they cut it loose, probably because of all the paid license holders which they are unlikely to get any money from.

Thanks. Will take a look at it later.