General Discussion

Malware Checker "Checkers" Needed

I here by volunteer to check new releases of the following for False Positives by:
McAfeeAV,
http://vil.nai.com/vil/submit-sample.aspx

AvastAV Portable
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=7779

ClamWinPortable:
http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi

1. FireFoxPortable
2. ThunderBird Portable
3. ClamWinPortable

and to Report them to the companies in question.

Hey guys,

got 2 identical usb flash drives (both with a 1 GB-chip from samsung)..

One launches PAM perfectly with the default Autorun.inf, the other one _only_ with this content:

[Autorun]
UseAutoPlay=1
shellexecute=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
Action=Start PortableApps
Icon=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
Label=Geode

inside the file.

Although this works great, I got _two_ context menu-entries in Windows Explore if I right-click at the drive's icon stating "AutoPlay"?!

Have been using AVG for about 3 years now with only a few problems. After yesterdays (2.9.08) update several of my portable apps were detected as virus/trojan horse ("Downloader.ZLOB.UAQ). So I decided to try Avast, which seems to be another favorite free AV. But alas Avast also has a bunch of what I am calling false positives. It is picking up some .Exe converted batch files (I made these myself so they would show up on the PA menu) for a few other programs.

Please please make zip versions of the portable apps available. It shouldn't be too hard as the current "installer" is really just an obfuscated decompresser.

The reasons for wanting a zip version are:
1)Company firewall policies which ban the download of .exe files
2) People are wary about having to run an "installer" when all they want is a non-installed traceless portable version of the product (I know, I know, but the terminology is important). Some people just want to unzip and go.

Discussion moved here: https://portableapps.com/node/11334

Hi,
maybe somebody can confirm this?
I tried to download several portable apps and my AVGfree (up-to-date) says the files contain a virus (Downloader.Zlob.UAC or something).

The note popped up at least for this files:
firefox (en, de)
vlc

so, no offense and all - you guys do a good job for the windows user. thanks a lot.
but please check the stuff.

Hello,

which is the best way for me to know if my flash drive is still in good shape?

I've formatted my 4GB as NTFS and I've been happily using it for the last 6 months (thanks John for making me discover the portable world!)

I've no sign of my drive getting worse, but I would like to prevent it to lose data and move to a new one before it becomes unreliable.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Simeon, I'm seeing multiple errors in the logs generated by your user account (and only yours). In the error log it's a mySQL error about "Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'" while it's attempting to update the cache of pages you are browsing apparently.

So, are you seeing any errors? Are you doing anything odd while browsing? COuld you try logging out, clearing your cache, and logging back in?

Hi.

May I ask you will it has a problem if we have 2 version of the softwares ?

I have a software installed on my desktop computer, then I try to run the portable version of the same software. It runs fine.
Its just that after that I can't run the desktop installed software, it says it lacks of some personalization files.

Then I try to uninstall / reinstall the desktop software, it kept sayin that "the software is in use, please close the program" while on ctrl+alt+del i couldn't find the software is working hence i can't close anything.

Hello All,

I just bought a new Eee PC and the Portable Apps works GREAT on it! However the screen size is 800 X 480. At that size the top of the Portable Apps main menuis off of the top of the screen, even though I do not have it full of apps and the bottom is empty.

Is there a way to resize the Main menu?

Greg

I plan to purchase a new usb harddrive and want to use it for portableapps and maybe also portable os.

Therefore it need to be a fast one. How can I find out which usb harddrives are one of the fastest one?