In May 2019, the official site returned with the original forums permanently shut down in favor of Sophos' own forums, which were later shut down as well. In April 2019, the official site was shut down, preventing downloads, installations and purchases, which prompted the creation of a temporary forum in the company's own domain.
The previous commercial license still applied to customers with active licenses until their license expired. In September 2019, Sandboxie version 5.31.4 was released under a freeware license "with plans to transition it to an open source tool". Windows XP SP3 was supported up to version 5.22, after which support for XP was dropped.
Version 4.02 introduced full support for 64-bit versions of Windows with the exception of Windows XP 64-bit which was never supported. Invincea posted an assurance in Sandboxie's website that for the time being Sandboxie's development and support would continue as normal. In February 2017, Sophos announced the acquisition of Invincea. The original developer Ronen Tzur further announced he would no longer be involved with the program. In December 2013, Invincea announced the acquisition of Sandboxie. Over time, the program was expanded to support other browsers and arbitrary Win32 applications.
Sandboxie was initially released in 2004 as a tool for sandboxing Internet Explorer. Īfter various ownership transitions ( Sophos acquired Invincea which acquired Sandboxie from the original author Ronen Tzur), Sophos eventually dropped support and released it as open source, recommending a development initiative headed by David Xanatos that offers both Sandboxie Plus and Sandboxie Classic.
This virtual environment allows for controlled testing of untrusted programs and web surfing. Sandboxie creates an isolated operating environment in which applications can be run or installed without permanently modifying the local system. Sandboxie is an open-source sandboxing program for Microsoft Windows. English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese (Brasil and Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.