How do I stop from it from checking for updates? It's annoying.
How do I stop from it from checking for updates? It's annoying.
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That does not work. When I press "never", it starts spamming me with one "Sandboxie is available for download" popup per second. I need to uninstall then reinstall Sandboxie to recover from the repeated popups. Is there any other way of stopping update checks, like maybe blocking the server in the hosts file?
Hi Janessa,
It sounds like you may be using a non supported version of Sandboxie.
If you are indeed using an older version, please visit sandboxie.com for additional information (listed in the front page).
Please, see the guidelines for more info regarded what's supported:
How to report problems with Sandboxie
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Barb@Sophos
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Hi Janessa,
to get rid of the update loop with your Sandboxie-version, you can manually edit the file sandboxie.INI in path c:\windows, and change the value of "SbieCtrl_NextUpdateCheck" to 2124300600, so that the update question is delayed to 25th April 2037.
When you click the button "Never" in the Update-Question, the date of 18th April 2019 is always set to this INI value, and therefore the Update-Question-Loop is restarting in an endless loop.
The conversion between Unix-TimeStamp (2124300600) und readable date (25th April 2037) can be made for example at www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm
Hi Janessa,
to get rid of the update loop with your Sandboxie-version, you can manually edit the file sandboxie.INI in path c:\windows, and change the value of "SbieCtrl_NextUpdateCheck" to 2124300600, so that the update question is delayed to 25th April 2037.
When you click the button "Never" in the Update-Question, the date of 18th April 2019 is always set to this INI value, and therefore the Update-Question-Loop is restarting in an endless loop.
The conversion between Unix-TimeStamp (2124300600) und readable date (25th April 2037) can be made for example at www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm
Further useful information about unix time (2038 problem)
https://www.unixtimestamp.com/index.php
I use SbieCtrl_NextUpdateCheck=2145916799 (31.12.2037 23:59:59.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bg6ml0/did_sandboxie_launch_a_denial_of_service_against/
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