Hey to everyone, this is my first post here.
First of all, thanks to whole open source community for making great apps, and thanks to everyone here who made the same apps portable.
Second, how about making some kind of protection for portable apps?
Althrought you can have clamwin on your USB drive, it's dumb to scan every PC in wich you plug your USB drive. How about some kind of locking of portable apps on your USB, so infected computers can't infect your portable apps when you run them.
If this situation is already solved and i'm unaware of it, please let me know.
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You could always use Clamwin on your portable apps so that they stay clean. I think thats one of the reasons it was created
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All the launchers for all the apps perform self-checks to ensure they haven't been infected (CRC Checks). If FirefoxPortable.exe were infected with a virus, for instance, it would say it was corrupt on launch. The apps inside (like Firefox itself) don't do this, though.
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So, there is some kind of alarm, but there is no protection.
Is is possible to lock some files? If not, one of solutions could be that all executables could be 7zipped inside archive with password, and when crc's don't match, original files are extracted over the infected ones...
Nope, you can't lock files on an external drive. And comparing MD5 hashes on all files, for instance, would basically make the apps unusable (it would take several minutes to launch).
Even having an active AV program on a portable device doesn't offer much protection as the PC you're plugging into may already be infected with a virus that can hide itself from an AV program starting up.
In short, follow the safe portable apping guidelines.
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And how about making a virus protection a separated background process after running a portable app of your choice?
It's too late at that point. The app would already be infected.
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