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Virus protection of USB flash

Submitted by fisehaye on December 7, 2015 - 6:28am

Well,we all use our USB flash to run our portable apps on schools,work or somewhere else.It's cool to be able to use apps anywhere without installing them.But frankly many of us enjoy it until some virus attacks our USB.It's a great frustration.Our apps become lousy,our daily work gets buggy.So what should be done to prevent our USB from these viruses.(Although full control is impossible.)Let's share experiences,guys.

Update notifications

Submitted by tlchost on December 7, 2015 - 4:45am

I have portableapps instaled on my hard drive and on a usb drive. I've recently noticed that is I check for updates on the hard drive
installation of Portable Apps, the updates are detected, dolwnloaded and installed...but the usb drive installation does not detect the updates.

Is there a setting that forces portableapps to look only at the drive where I start it?

thanks in advance

Resolved: SourceForge security certificate expired, site inaccessible by most, workarounds live and coming

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 2, 2015 - 10:02pm

At 6:59pm NY time on December 2nd, SourceForge.net's security certificate expired. This results in most visitors being faced with a "This Connection is Untrusted" or similar page when attempting to visit SourceForge. As most of our open source downloads are hosted on SourceForge and all traffic is redirected to HTTPS, this means many of the files are inaccessible to end users.

AppExporter 0.5 Beta

Submitted by asper on December 1, 2015 - 2:04pm

Hello to all,
I created a small portable application to use in conjunction with portable programs on USB key, for example. "PortableApps", which allows you to export a portable program from the stick to the host computer using three methods:
- Copying
- Creating an installer
- Installing it directly on the host PC
and I am looking for someone who wants to help me doing the beta-testers.
The small program is still under development but almost fully functional (beta 0.5)
If someone wants to help me know.
Thank you in advance.

How to contribute

Submitted by Danixu on November 21, 2015 - 2:29pm

Hi, first of all i'm sorry for my english.

My question is about how i can contribute to the webpage. I've got the old OpenVPN Portable source and i've adapted the installer for me:
- Use of the latest openvpn version (2.3.8) and the latest drivers.
- An admin version for people that need it (for example for add routes to windows Vista and above). The normal version works too, but you need to right click on the exe and run as administrator (and is too hard for some users... i've experience with that).

DLL Files, etc.

Submitted by np511 on November 11, 2015 - 10:03am

Why isn't there a subfolder in PortableApps/Common Files for DLL files? I have counted the DLL files on my drive and there are many repeated DLLs. Why not have such a folder?

If I were to run it on Linux using Wine I could manually create that folder and use symbolic links. Is there a similar method that would work on Windows?

[Fixed] What happened to the new and updated topics button that was at the top of the forums list?

Submitted by Artos on November 7, 2015 - 2:43am

When I logged in to the forums i found the new and updated topics button missing. I also get a page not found (404 error) if I select view unanswered forum posts or view new forum posts in the forum tools. Is some work/update being performed on the site

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