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Odd Vista Problem

Submitted by sja5164 on June 2, 2010 - 10:18am

I use my PA flash drive both at work (XP), home (vista), and school (vista). I have an autorun.inf file that just tells it to run portableapps.exe and gives it a new icon in Windows Explorer.

For some reason, every time I plug it in at home, it comes up that I need to format. But if I go into Windows Explorer I can still open and run anything (sans my fancy icon)

Any thoughts?

Infection?

Submitted by theshem on June 2, 2010 - 12:35am

I downloaded the full suite and when I started installing it on my USB Thumb Drive, my CA Antivirus flagged one of the files as possibly being infected.

** 6/1/2010 23:10:57 PM File infection: F:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\PortableAppsPlatform.exe may have unknown infection. **

On doing a regular scan with CA, it states that file is suspected of being infected with Win32/ASuspect.HDCCC

Has anyone else run across this?

Thanks.

Is it possible to alter the shape of the Portable Apps console?

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Submitted by simmmo on May 30, 2010 - 9:31pm

I have an Asus Eee netbook. I have installed the Portable Apps console and a bunch of Portable Apps software, on a USB flashdrive, to use with the netbook. My problem is that the Portable Apps console sits too high for the little netbook screen, so I can't access the links to the software at the top - and I can't seem to access the top section of the apps console, so I can pull it down lower on the screen.

Digg.com applet on news pages lagging for everyone, or just me?

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on May 29, 2010 - 6:43am

I'm having trouble reading (and posting) comments on news pages due to, I believe, the Digg.com applet which lets you submit the post to Digg or whatever. The page renders up to and including the Facebook Share applet, but it takes forever to load the Digg one. To the tune of 30-60 seconds.

Malware

Submitted by Siborg on May 28, 2010 - 5:14pm

Why has my C drive now been renamed portableapps.com and why does it have a flash drive for an icon? portableapps is malware and it will be reported as such!

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