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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Digital Signatures

Submitted by mstinaff on February 14, 2008 - 12:07pm

So now that Official apps are being signed, what is the best way to actually check these signatures? The only app I have found thus far is a command line tool from Microsoft called SigCheck. It gets the job done, but isn't exactly user friendly. So what have other people been using to check the signatures?

problem on the fly

Submitted by pankh on February 14, 2008 - 11:58am

i'm in a travelling time
and using portableapps on pubblic internet places
really makes me feel safe... was some time that i was looking to find a portable solution to keep my data safe
anyway
i set up a truecrypt volume on my usb key
where i put a portableapps suite adds some more of available usefull apps
now i'm testing it
and here's the problem:
many times i can't not remove my usb key
because is still in use
_for me is not_
so the only way is to took it out
but is not really the best solution i guess
i believe that someone other have already met this problem

Created an interesting Autorun Program (Internet connection detection)

Submitted by BluePlanet on February 13, 2008 - 5:18pm

I created a autorun program, that only runs a specified application(s) when it detects an internet connection. I use my drive in a variety of places and not all of them have internet. I had set my Thunderbird and other apps to autorun, but got tired of them popping up even when I didn't have internet So I wrote a small program that detects a connection, and optionally asks you if you would like to start your applications, if there is no connection nothing happens.

Large Distribution Methods

Submitted by cturek on February 13, 2008 - 12:05pm

Is there a way to create an installation package for installing the portableapps software and a customized set of applications on 50-100 USB thumb drives? I would like to make this package available so users could easily run an installation and have it install the necessary mobile software into a portableapps format without having to selectively download and install the software. Also, is there a way to package updates for the different mobile application software as updates become available?

Truth in Advertising benchmark scores on USB flash drives

Submitted by EVBrown on February 13, 2008 - 9:17am

All,

I have read some posts regarding which drives are good for Portable apps, and I wanted to share my experience. I run most of my apps as portable apps on my USB drive, so everything will run exactly the same at work and at home. I even have some old legacy Windows apps that I run entirely from my USB drive. I had a 2 year old 2 GB Lexar Lightning drive that I was happy with, but I needed more space, so I researched which drives were supposed to be fast.

DARKSUSB.exe Trojan (Please read for instructions how to remove it)

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Submitted by Nathan9222 on February 13, 2008 - 2:27am

Some of you may already know, but those of u that havent heard of darksusb USE CAUTION WHEN USING COMPUTERS AT SCHOOL OR AT THE LIBRARY. So far i have heard that this Trojan originated from mexico. I recently got it from my school while using the computer in my engineering class. I scanned my usb and it was never detected by Norton or Mcafee, so far the only scanner that will remove it is ClamWin that is found on this site (thanks 4 saving my usb) I will tell you what the trojan did to my usb.

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