General Discussion

Free Portable Applications For Flash Drives

Today I bought a Peak III USB Flash Drive and with it came a leaflet which lists some applications for use with Flash drives. The leaflet goes about explaining what portable applications are and..

"PEAK has collected a selection of portable applications and has verified them as safe and useful tools for users."

Software mentioned: PStart, Taango, DeepBurner, SoftPerfect, FoxitReader, PhotoFiltre, XnView, Remora USB Disk Guard...

and our own PortableApps.com apps like:

VLC Portable (5 stars)
OpenOffice Portable (5 stars)

Okay I know we need to support users with any problems they may face with our apps. However our list is growing and it's going to get messy to have a forum for each app. Especially since each apps forum isn't used very often and John's been cranking out the new apps like mad. So instead of having 30 different forums would it be possible to just create one App Support Forum?

I just found this trough PenDriveApps.com

Rohos Mini Drive is a FREE Portable Partition Encryption tool that can be used to create a hidden partition on a USB device that is password protected. The Software doesn’t require Administrator Privileges to open the password protected USB drive partition on a guest computer. It can be run directly from a USB device [...]

PreRelease Malware Testing

I would like to suggest at this point that every app that is going to be released be uploaded to our standard MultiMalware testers:

http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexx.html
http://virusscan.jotti.org/

It just does not make sense to have people posting about Viruses being detected from their AntiMalware products when it could have easily have been checked just prior to release.
I think this just make sense.

Especially with the increasing number of releases we are doing.

Now the hard part

What to do if VirusTotal or Jotti do find something?

have you guys tried it ??... sounds kind ah fishy to me...its like to good to be true..

False Positive Alert:???

McAfee reports: clean
Avast reports: clean

ClamWin Reports:

...\PeaZip_Portable_1.11_en-us.paf.exe: PUA.Packed.UPack-2 FOUND

Checked with our standard guys [Jotti & VirusTotal] as follows:

Jotti
http://virusscan.jotti.org/
Reports:
ArcaVir Found Heur.Win32.I
ClamAV Found PUA.Packed.UPack-2
CPsecure Found W32.Email.W.Zhelatin.vi

Virus Total
http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexx.html
Reports:
ClamAV 2008.03.13 PUA.Packed.UPack-2

I have asked the ClamAV Team to investigate.
Not sure what to do about ArcaVir or CPsecure

Some Apps I think deserve High Priority on the Portable release schedule:

- InfraRecorder (A DC/DVD burning tool)
- InkScape (Vercor drawing application)

Maybe there are some more waiting for release but these apps have no counterpart already available.

I am wondering what I need to do with the PA version of FF 3 Beta to make my addons work. For my desktop, there are a couple of boolean checks that I added per LifeHacker site that allow my addons to work but that does not seem to be the case with the portable version.

Thanks,

Mark

did anyone else notice that they could not acsess the page for like 3 hours. for me it was between 7:20 am and 9:25AM -5:00 EST.

it is 10:23 now and i am glad that i can get on here.

As I continue to look at it day after day, I thought it might be a good idea to say something now. The list on the left side of the site labeled "Apps Hosted Here" needs to be re-worked a bit in my opinion.

I think we should have kinda a vote on which apps are most important to users, so we can show those in the sidebar, along with which is most popular. Because name's normally don't give away an application function, but if it's popular, the user will click on that link.