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[Sbie Plus] Unusual Windows 7 detection for Windows 8.1 users #636

Closed isaak654 closed 3 years ago

isaak654 commented 3 years ago

Original issues: here and here

I have uninstalled a old version of Sandboxie. I just tried installing the latest release of Sandboxie Plus on my Windows 8.1 laptop and it won't install. I get to the window where it's saying I need the provisional driver for Windows 7. Does it say this no matter what version of Windows it is being installed on? What do I do when I get to this window that pops up?

Well it is getting worse for me. I uninstalled all versions of classic and Plus and tried to reinstall newest plus on Win 8.1

  1. It told me I needed win 7 drivers?
  2. Tried to install latest classic version. It told me I needed digitally signed something
  3. Just re-ran the classic exe file and it installed
  4. I now have edge listed as a option and it seems to be working
  5. I got my releases from here Release Release v0.7.1 / 5.48.5 · sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie · GitHub I tried the Plus-x64-0.7.1 and that told me I needed win 7 drivers I then installed this Classic x64-5.48.5 (worked after two tries) But when I go to "About" it says I have plus installed (see image) do I have the latest versions?

Imho this should be investigated, as it seems that OS detection is not reliable for current Windows 8.1 systems.

r4taw2mg commented 3 years ago

Same problem here with the installer for 0.7.2: asking for Win7 driver during an install on Win8.1.

This was my first try of installing the Sandboxie sucessor. Before that I had the old non-oss version running.

DavidXanatos commented 3 years ago

just give it the w7 driver, nut sure why the detection fails in the past it worked.

r4taw2mg commented 3 years ago

I won't get any other problems, installing a Win7 driver? I do not want to install additional stuff that is not really needed.

BTW: My system was not upgraded from Win7. It started as a Win8 install.

DavidXanatos commented 3 years ago

I won't get any other problems, installing a Win7 driver? I do not want to install additional stuff that is not really needed.

BTW: My system was not upgraded from Win7. It started as a Win8 install.

The drivers are binary identical, just signed differently.

the windows 10 driver is signed by MSFT and does nto upset any anti malware fools

the windows 7 driver is signed using a leakedcode certificate those results in a but load of false positives, the problem is that you cant obtain new code signing certificates for windows 7 that would run past march or so, its a MSFT thing thay want to kill w7 support one way or an other.

isaak654 commented 3 years ago

Manual installation of Windows 7 drivers is no longer needed since the integration in v0.7.3 / 5.49.5, so this issue might be closed accordingly.