Sandboxie 3.43.12 Beta

[Bizarre™]

<img src="http://nsanedown.com/images/logos/Sandboxie.png" class="logo" alt="Sandboxie" title="Sandboxie" />When you browse the Web, changes occur to your computer system. Some of these might be harmful, like the unsolicited installation of malware. When you use Sandboxie to protect your browsing session, it catches all these changes just as the browser is about to apply them into your computer system. Sandboxie does record these changes on behalf of the browser, but it records them in a special isolated folder, called the sandbox. Thus, with Sandboxie, you can browse the Web securely while still keeping all your browser's functionality for active and dynamic content, such as javascript and ActiveX. All undesired side effects can be easily undone.

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[jalaffa]

This Beta comes with a 64-bit version. Link added.

[Bizarre™]

I saw the 64-bit version, but was hesitant to add it since it's beta.

[jalaffa]

About the 64-bit version:

From the author:

I have reconsidered my position and decided that I should stop fighting windmills.

I've held out so far because it was important for me to try to get a particular

message out. I appreciate those of you who chose to listen, but realistically,

I have to admit that the world at large does not care much for my message.

So I give up, and thus, without further ado:

http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6842

Supported 64-bit Windows operating systems:

o Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 or later

o Windows 7.

[Bizarre™]

The big question is (to the author): does it properly work on 64-bit?

[Night Owl]

Wow, thank you so much for the news about the 64-bit version. I was just about to install either XP mode or VMware Workstation just to use Sandboxie, but maybe I won't have to anymore if Sandboxie works properly on 64-bit Windows.

EDIT: Well, at least a BSOD that existed in the older 3.43.11 64-bit Beta has been fixed in the 3.43.12 64-bit Beta

[Night Owl]

I have a question. The author states for the 64-bit version:

This edition of Sandboxie uses official kernel interfaces, so it does not conflict with the Kernel Patch Protection built into 64-bit versions of Windows.

File-system, registry access and cross-process manipulation in the 64-bit version is subject to strong protection which is provided by kernel mode code, just like the 32-bit version.

However, as described in the WindowsVista64 page, the 64-bit version of Sandboxie cannot use kernel mode supervision to guarantee that software in the sandbox does not connect to a service outside the sandbox. Such connections are protected only at the application level.

For this reason, the Drop Rights option is enabled by default in the 64-bit version of Sandboxie.

Does this mean that if some malware knows about Sandboxie 64-bit that it could defeat it? From what I've read at the Sandboxie forums, it seems that only the 32-bit version is 100% safe.

EDIT: Here's an answer from the author:

I don't think there are any alternatives that would be more secure, other than a virtual machine, which is not really a practical solution. So you still have protection that would stop most if not all malware. The only problem is that some aspects of this protection might be circumvented.

So my answer is that 64-bit web browsing under Sandboxie is going to be safer than not using Sandboxie, but not as safe as 32-bit web browsing under Sandboxie.

[Bizarre™]

@Night Owl:

Indeed. That's what I was talking about.