In 2019, Sophos agreed on the acquisition by a private equity firm Thoma Bravo, and in March 2020, they announced the completion of the acquisition deal. In September 2019, due to the fact that it was not important from the business point of view, they revealed their plan to publicly release Sandboxie source code.

Sophos acquired Sandboxie technology through the acquisition of the company in 2017. The existing license server is also scheduled to shut down on the same date. After installing Sandboxie, please review the Getting Started tutorial in the Help Topics page. The latest version is v5.22.2, released in March.ĭue to being released in open source, Sandboxie forum is scheduled to close on June 1, 2020. Download: Sandboxie Installer (See bottom section for OS support) (2.5 MB) ( md5/sha1 ) Upgrade: If you have an earlier version of Sandboxie already installed, you can let the installer upgrade (overwrite) your existing installation. It is confirmed that it runs on web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, CyberFox, Opera, and IE 6 to 11. It can protect personal data within a local storage from being manipulated via web browser, and blocks programs from wrongfully collecting data. Being a software that creates isolated sandbox environment to run applications, it can safely run web browsers and mail clients, and is useful for testing applications. Sandboxie was developed 15 years ago as a tool for creating sandbox for Windows.

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