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FossHub Hacked - Audacity Affected (local, not our portable version)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on August 3, 2016 - 2:08pm

Just a heads up that FossHub was hacked. Reports are coming in that downloads of ClassicShell and Audacity were affected (possibly more). Both ClassicShell and Audacity use FossHub as their official download site, so if you went to Audacity's site and selected to download the local version of Audacity, you might be affected. The malware in question wipes your PC's master boot record rendering the PC unbootable once you reboot.

Run portable Android apps off my phone when I use my phone as s usb hard drive

Submitted by Fitness Wain on July 29, 2016 - 3:21pm

Hi Mr. Gord Caswell,
I want to run a portable Android fie manager app on a usb hard drive e.g.ES File Explorer File Manager by ES Global in Google Play Store.
In your reply to J dub dated March 29, 2013 under the Topic : "USB hosting with portable apps on android", you advised J dub that he could run the apps off his phone when he used his phone as a usb drive.

Transmission-Qt portability

Submitted by nixiejames on July 29, 2016 - 3:44am

not sure where to post stuff like this so please correct me asap.

so i was using the Everything app from voidtools to check if there are leftovers from my apps whenever i exit them.
i found one leftover from the Transmission-Qt app in the C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local directory.
the folder name was transmission.

that's it, pretty much.

btw, i was wondering when the Everything app was going to move out of Dev Test since i love the app so much and i would like it to be in paf.

DVD Video Burning software

Submitted by SGB74 on July 28, 2016 - 10:13pm

Hello all,

I wanted to know if any of the supplied apps hosted here on portableapps.com offer the ability to burn a mp4 file onto a DVD video disc. To be more specific, I recorded a church service for someone last week, and it was requested of me to be able to burn it to a playable DVD which can be watched on a DVD player. Is there anything I can use that will allow this while using the mp4 format?

Dropped VirusTotal recommendation, MetaDefender recommended instead

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 18, 2016 - 5:58pm

We no longer recommend VirusTotal for developers to scan new releases to check for antivirus engine alerts and end users to double-check possible false positives in their installed antivirus engine. This decision is due to poor availability of VirusTotal's engine (it was basically inaccessible for the last 3 days), slow performance of scans likely due to overloading of their servers, and poor quality of the scan results due to inclusion of low-quality antivirus engines and poor settings or beta definitions of some other engines.

Blender video editor

Submitted by liam.mctaggart on July 18, 2016 - 4:31pm

found portable apps a while ago and considered using them instead of buying a new computer if I could get a good NLE with it.

the NLE's listed were TEncode and Virtual Dub, both of which are not really to my liking, though Virtual Dub can be useful if you take the time to figure it out, I'm aware. anyway, I went the route of the cheapest computer I could find that would fit my needs

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