In December 2013, Invincea announced the acquisition of Sandboxie. Over time, the program was expanded to support other web browsers and eventually, arbitrary apps.

Sandboxie was initially released in 2004 as a tool for sandboxing Internet Explorer. The day after the Sophos announcement, a third-party developer known as David Xanatos forked the open-source project and expanded it later with Sandboxie Plus. Īfter various ownership transitions ( Sophos acquired Invincea which acquired Sandboxie from the original author, Ronen Tzur), Sophos eventually dropped support and released the code as open-source.

This virtual environment allows for controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing. It is a sandboxing solution that creates an isolated operating environment in which applications can run without permanently modifying the local system. Sandboxie is an open-source OS-level virtualization solution for Microsoft Windows. Plus: Custom-made, Open-core model, Nagware.Windows 2000 users may need to install GDIPLUS.DLL if you don''t already have it. Learn to use Sandboxie on your computer by clicking this link. Sandboxie intercepts changes to both your files and registry settings, making it virtually impossible for any software to reach outside the sandbox. Use sandboxie to intercept your browser''s disc activity, throw away the sandbox and all your recent activity disappears, including cache, history etc. In case you do like it, just install it again outside the sandbox. If the software contains malware or you just don''t like it, just throw away the sandbox and the program disappears completely. This is extremely useful when you try out suspicious software. When you throw away the sandbox, everything that is written to it will be lost. It allows programs to read data from the hard drive but when they try to write something back, the data is captured to sandboxie''s transient storage (sandbox). Sandboxie creates a transient storage between your programs and your hard drive.

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