But installs that used to work, now don't. device driver, service, hardware installs. I am not talking about installs that always fail under a Sandbox e.g. Even if the installer is invoked within Sandboxie using UAC administrator privileges, the installs invariably fail either due to access errors in copying/renaming files to the target folder, inability to access the Windows installer service, or both. This is the ability to do sandboxed installs of simple software. Some of Sandboxie's functionality which is of most value to me has stopped working. I'm not sure when, exactly, this started happening, but probably around the release of 1909.

We will continue to update this post as additional details become available. We have included a FAQ below with more information. Until the open source transition is completed we have decided to make Sandboxie completely free.

We will release more information about the open source project as we continue to work on the details. 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.Īfter 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. More importantly, we love the Sandboxie community too much to do that. However, we love the technology too much to see it fade away. Sandboxie has never been a significant component of Sophos’ business, and we have been exploring options for its future for a while.įrankly, the easiest and least costly decision for Sophos would have been to simply end of life Sandboxie. This new evolution of Sandboxie is one we are enthusiastic about, but that does not mean this was an easy decision to make. Sophos is excited to announce that we are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to an open source tool.

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