General Discussion

It has come to our attention that McAfee's family of antivirus products is currently using a majorly broken set of antivirus definitions and finding false positive in several portable launchers and lots of other software.

Current affected products include:
- The PortableApps.com Platform
- Pidgin Portable
- GIMP Portable (I can't confirm this, VirusTotal says GIMPPortable.exe is fine by McAfee)
- OpenOffice.org Portable (I can't confirm this, VirusTotal says OpenOfficePortable.exe is fine by McAfee)
- and others

I'd like to be able to track and maybe revert if possible changes to a system done by an application.

In this way, I can test portable apps that I'm unsure are fully portable.

What application can I use for this?

thanks

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One of my favorite natively portable freeware launchers, Cylog Toolbox, has posted a beta for their 3.0 release. I've been following them on Twitter, and they've done a lot of work on this major release.
Check out the list of new features (under Coming up in ToolBox v3.00):
http://www.cylog.org/utilities/toolbox.jsp

Even the old version had some great stuff, like drag-and-drop shortcuts, switch to relative paths at the click of a button, change icons easily, wallpaper and transparency backgrounds, and support for multiple toolboxes.

I was using Internet Exploder on my school's PC to go over and download some portableapps, when something odd occurred. I went to install google chrome, and it asked if I want to open or save the program as normal. (the only good feature of IE imo) I hit open, and it said that it won't run because it isn't named online.paf. However, the problem is if you open a file in Internet Exploder instead of hitting save, it give it a random name before opening it, therefore breaking the installer.

Another reason to hate IE I suppose.

Hi all,

I just installed Win7 x64 and alot of my portable applications I have running from USB drive started to give problems.Majority will still work even if the error is present.

Nevertheless I have one application is very usefull AVS Converter and I cant get it to work. It closes the aplication and Issues me and Event log error Application Eid 1000 -- 100

Any ideas? Or can anyone try the application on similar OS?

Thanks

I've noticed a lot of themes for PortableApps menu and other portable launchers on DeviantArt So I thought I'd start a group **I don't intend on this being official PortableApps.com group** just thought it might be a good place to combine and gather the people who upload to DeviantArt into one gathering... I'd also like this to be a group where people can add themes/skins for Apps that are portable as well as the awesome PortableApps.com platform, geekmenu or any of the other portable platforms/launchers or menus..

Is there a portable software or something similar available (free) that will allow me to put a password on my usb drive so that should I lose it no one can get in to all the data I have on there?

Whatever happened to the portable apps updater. is it dead. i have a running version on my flash-drive. it looks like its been removed due to licencing issues.

Have these been fixed. if so where is the latest version.

if not when is it coming

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Thanks

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