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Box preset comparison

Sandboxie Plus offers six base box types and an optional encrypted/confidential combination.

A sandbox typically isolates your host system from processes running within the box, it prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer. The level of isolation impacts your security as well as the compatibility with applications. Sandboxie Plus can protect your personal data from being accessed by processes running under its supervision.

Sandboxie Plus can also combine encrypted sandbox storage with Confidential Box protection, which restricts relevant unsandboxed host-process access to sandboxed process and thread handles. Mounted-root protection is a separate filesystem protection option. See Black Box for the combined wizard option.

The table shows the ordinary configuration of the six base types. Application Compartment identifies that mode, not a general compatibility rating. Colors and icons are presentation aids, not guarantees about a box's effective settings.

Box Type Security Hardened Data Protection Application Compartment
Red Box — Security Hardened Sandbox with Data Protection Green Color YES Green Color YES Red Color NO
Orange Box — Security Hardened Sandbox Green Color YES Red Color NO Red Color NO
Blue Box — Sandbox with Data Protection Red Color NO Green Color YES Red Color NO
Yellow Box — Standard Sandbox Red Color NO Red Color NO Red Color NO
Cyan Box — Application Compartment Box with Data Protection Red Color NO Green Color YES Green Color YES
Green Box — Application Compartment Box Red Color NO Red Color NO Green Color YES

Encrypted and confidential option

The New Box Wizard's Encrypt Box content and set Confidential option can be combined with any of the six base types. In the normal wizard workflow, it adds UseFileImage=y and ConfidentialBox=y while retaining the selected base configuration.

Feature Black Box option
Encrypted Storage Yes
Confidential Process Protection Yes
Security / Data Protection / Application Compartment mode Retained from the selected base type

Black Box type icon SandMan can display this dark icon for the combined encrypted/confidential presentation. It does not identify one fixed base mode or imply a black border. See Box Presentation for presentation settings.