macondo VS Sandboxie

This reminded me of a proof of concept thing that facilitates this kind of work.

https://github.com/casidiablo/macondo

I don't even know what it is I built, but it has been useful in some contexts.

It basically allows you to easily wrap and distribute scripts (or more complex apps) that have specific dependencies that might not always be installed in the host. It does so by wrapping the script in a docker image.

It also automates the annoying part of docker: mounting local paths for apps that need to interact with the host's file system.

I need to write a blog post on this if anything to gather feedback. I'm still not 100% sold on the idea and there are some edge cases. Still, a fun experiment.

I used to use sandboxie so I could emulate multiple browser sessions without worrying about cached creds or the different portals screwing up my context. It works decently.

Use Sandboxie on Windows. It's open source these days, and isolates processes from making changes on your system. It's perfect to install and run potentially unsafe programs. Sandboxie exists since 2003, and yet we still have people in business worlds running viruses from mail attachments.

Sandboxie

You can allow applications inside a Sandboxie to communicate with each other through sockets even when network access by Sandboxie is blocked1. You can enable Sandboxie network access and use Windows firewall outside Sandboxie to block all applications inside the Sandboxie from accessing the network1. It is also possible to specify ports that cannot be accessed by boxed applications2. However, it is not possible to specify IP’s or IP ranges that cannot be accessed by boxed applications2.

In addition to just taking all privileges way from the process, like Chrome does, there's also Sandboxie [1] and the official Windows Sandbox [2]

1: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

2b: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

VirtualBox dropped 3D acceleration for old OS like XP a while back, you can see it it running "dxdiag" on your windows XP and running the tests, it will do DirectDraw only since the game is a 32 bit windows game it should run on modern windows like 10 and 11, I saw that the main problem is the DRM, so you will need a "cracked/pached" exe, I can't help with that, but do your own search, if you want to be "safe" you can try running it using something like SandBoxie-plus https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/releases

With those pre-reqs, is there anything Windows Sandbox can do that Sandboxie can't?

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

Could you pls. test if the vulnerability can be mitigated by using Sandboxie-Classic (that is the free version)?

I also want to recommand this piece of small software but it's very neat, Sandboxie: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie