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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 1, 2018 - 5:52pm

Greetings all,

We've been brainstorming ways to ensure that PortableApps.com remains an ongoing project for a while. There are a few things I'd like to be able to do with the project and, as most folks have noticed, SourceForge downloads continue to be an issue for us. They're currently unavailable within the platform and only partially working within the browser (a big issue since about 74% of downloads are platform-based) and we're unable to upload new releases. This is the second DDoS in a week that has resulted in an outage.

Balabolka security threat

Submitted by ayman.roshdy on February 27, 2018 - 7:00am

Hi Everyone,

I tried installing Balabolka (Text to Speech tool) yesterday and Symantec end point protection gave this alert and quarantined the file:

BalabolkaPortable_2.11.0.647.paf.exe Trojan.Gen.2 Quarantined Virus Auto-Protect scan Infected Quarantine 2/26/2018 15:24

And today I tried again after I found a new version and this time it gave a new alert:

BalabolkaPortable_2.11.0.648.paf.exe WS.Malware.2 Cleaned by deletion Virus Auto-Protect scan Deleted Deleted 2/27/2018 12:54

Any clues what is happening here?

Thanks

VLC 3.0.0

Submitted by librodgtl on February 26, 2018 - 5:41pm

When will VLC be updated? Version 3.0.0 is available since the beginning of February and works perfectly. Is there any reason for this very "curious" and "symptomatic" delay?

Trying to install and update apps, "not valid and can not be installed" error.

Submitted by pete_pa on February 25, 2018 - 4:21pm

Tried to update an app today, got the error. Later I wanted to install an app, got the same error. I tried to download the app .exe from the website, and it refreshes between https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/portableapps/ and
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/#!/project/portableapps/

Is there something I'm doing, or a problem with the website today?

Windows ARM laptops won't support 64-bit apps

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 22, 2018 - 1:59pm

Microsoft is gearing up to launch ARM laptops with Windows which will run existing non-ARM apps using Windows on Windows on ARM. This will support 32-bit x86 apps only. x64 apps will not be supported. Microsoft has said that they will likely support 64-bit standard apps at some point in the future but, according to all the reporting so far, this will be a very big engineering effort to get done since Windows on Windows has always been 32-bit-only and even if it is updated to support 64-bit, it will encounter a performance hit that 32-bit apps won't.

Host Machine has content added to it

Submitted by gwl on February 21, 2018 - 4:43am

Hi, I down loaded a number of apps and installed them onto a usb memory stick.

I then went to a clean machine and inserted the usb stick and started the interface.

I was substantially surprised when I saw the hard drive light up.

I tried several apps and then did a search by date on the clean machine.

There are files scatted all over the clean machines hard disk - mostly through the windows directory.

I write this as I was under the impression that the portable apps would write by default to the drive that they were installed on.

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