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Again, unless I am misunderstanding your point, the sandbox was deleted. According to what you described, the sandbox did get deleted. Bo Starting with this post, I've changed the subject from "Norton detects malware in sandbox hours after I cleared it" to the more-appropriate "Norton detects malwa...

FWIW ~ look for PUA event thru Norton History e.g., in Norton Quarantine or Norton Resolved Security Risks. Norton may have quarantined (pulled) sample from sandbox and was analyzing sample. You may have deleted sandbox but, sample was under Norton control. BTW, perhaps update your Sandboxie 5.18 t...

Perhaps the sandbox was not deleted and you thought it was. (icon solid yellow) means no programs are running in the sandbox. A red X means the sandbox is deleted. Did you see a red X when you closed the browser? Yes, I did see the red X. When I choose Terminate All programs, a Sandboxie dialog cou...

A couple of hours *after* I terminated all programs, and deleted all files, from Sandboxie (icon solid yellow), a Norton Internet Security popup said it had identified low-risk security threat PUA.JScoinminer (a JavaScript cryptocurrency miner, per Norton). The suspect file Norton cited was an htm I...

Craig, Curt and Bo -

Thanks to all three of you for the explanations, clarifications and suggestions. All of the responses were really helpful for this novice user! Don't know why I didn't try Sandboxie long ago. After trying, buying a license was a no-brainer.

Rick

Thanks for the reply. Yes, the files were still "gone" after reboot. The yellow icon means nothing is running in the sandbox. Not that the sandbox is empty. I guess I misunderstood this, thinking a solid yellow tray icon meant that the sandbox is empty. But I'm still a bit confused due to the follow...

I’ve had Sandboxie for about a month. Today I was searching for some files by filetype (unrelated to Sandboxie), and was surprised when the search results included some downloaded, unwanted, files that I thought I had deleted from the sandbox last night (the search showed the location of the files a...