It's an extra layer of security for dealing with suspect files. Remember, though, that Sandboxie Plus is not an antivirus. That's useful if you want to keep using the sandboxed apps, but always from within your secure sandbox. The second, Protect this sandbox from deletion or emptying, ensures your sandbox will remain unscathed if you absent-mindedly try to delete it or empty any files created within it. Enabling it ensures that after you close ('terminate') the last active app in the sandbox, Sandboxie will automatically delete its contents.

The first is Auto delete content when last sandboxed process terminates. Thankfully, those options are somewhat self-explanatory, so we won't have to expand on them. In other words: all features of the premium version of Sandboxie are available for free as of today.Under the next section of the same tab, Box Delete options, you can add some deletion-related automation to your sandbox. The new Sandboxie version that Sophos released today does not require an activation code and does not restrict access to features that were available to paid customers only previously. The company revealed plans to make Sandboxie an open source tool eventually. Sophos announced the license change on the official Sophos Community blog today. Sophos did not change the Sandboxie license initially when it acquired the assets. Created by developer Ronen Tzur, it was picked up by Invincea before Invincea itself was acquired by security company Sophos. Sandboxie started out as a shareware program for Windows to run applications and files in a sandbox on the running system.

The latest version, Sandboxie 5.31.4 was released on Septemit is the first version of Sandboxie that is available as freeware.

Sandboxie, a sandbox program for Microsoft's Windows operating system, has been turned into a free application.

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