General Discussion

Not to offend anyone, but I rather tech people answer this thread only to preserve the informative value of this post. Others can benefit of this information. Thank you.

Purpose of this thread: safe usage and prevention of a USB stick's content - soft/documents - when used in Internet Coffee shops and on companies networked computers (no policy on external devices here, and admin right on the networks).

In fact it is a board question and I don't even know how to formulate it, but:

How do I get infected
How do I see when I get infected

I managed to destroy my USB drive, and someone gave me a 32 gig unit. At first I was thrilled, until I tryed copying my stuff to it....The write speed would place it last in a geriatric turtle race.

Is/are there site(s) that have comparisons of various USB drives relative to read/write speeds?

Thanks

Thom

I need a new stick. It is not much about the price, but the usability/reliability/longevity/transfer speed. It is a Buffalo USB 2, Japanese model, either 8GB, either 16GB. What do you think? I would tend to select the 16 GB.

30 MB/s data transfert / 8 GB / 4000 JPY

or

30 MB/s data transfer / 16GB / 7500 JPY

http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/flash/ruf2-lvs-bk/ (30 MB/s)

Q1: is the life span of a USB shorter than a HD?
Q2: does the size make any difference about reliability or longevity?

The first hint of trouble came when I tried to download an app from the PortableApps.com website. After clicking on the 'Download' button I was redirected to a webpage for unrelated software. I closed my browser and tried again. This time, when I clicked on the 'Download' button I was redirected to a webpage for a different unrelated software package. There was a link to SourceForge on the page, and when I clicked on it, my download started but was immediately cut off by my security software.

Therefore, my question: Is there a problem with the PortableApps.com website?

Hey guys, long time user of portable apps but first time forum poster here.

My corporate SEP (Symantec Endpoint Protection) software called StartPortableApps.exe a Trojan Horse today and quarantined/deleted it.... fair enough... I deleted and formatted my USB drive... went to another PC, re-downloaded the Portable apps install executable from Portableapps.com and set my USB drive and apps up again.... took it to a server in the lab (still different PC we are talking about here) that also has SEP loaded and got the same thing?!?!?!

Hello,

Just stumbled across that blog and since the logo looks pretty much like the official PA one I thought that maybe it's owned by someone from here?

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I am on the site and I am getting weird error. On top of all the website it get this.

The selected file /var/www/vhosts/portableapps.com/httpdocs/tmp/filesOSXa2 could not be copied.

I can not get any pictures of the users.

thanks
~regards
powerjuce

Hi all,

I just want to know if anyone know of any portable utilities/program that can be used to launch/run program? Kinda like when you are clicking Start-Run.

I know I can achieve this by merely creating a shortcut and place that on my taskbar, but of course, having to do so for each command will clutter up my taskbar. Googling at the moment but can't find any.

Any suggestions will be very much appreciated. Thanks.

I would like to customize my FirefoxPortable.exe icon. I can customize the App/Firefox.exe with ResourceHacker but I can't for FirefoxPortable.exe.

Does Anyone know what please?

There was a brief site outtage today at approximately 8:15pm NY time. Due to a storm, power was knocked out at our Dallas-Fort Worth data center. An Automated Transfer Switch which is supposed to automatically switch over to internal power failed causing an outtage for our server behind the switch. The engineering team manually switched over affected systems to generator power and the site was back online approximately 2 hours later.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Regards,
John and the PortableApps.com Team