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How many bought a U3 drive and uninstalled U3?

Submitted by ernstmik on September 13, 2006 - 9:57am

I bought a Sandisk flash drive and it had U3 on it. Whether it did or didn't, I didn't care because it happened to be on super sale at Office Depot. However, it started met thinking about U3 and other portable apps so I am just curious how many people here removed U3 from their flash drive if it was previously installed by the manufacturer?

INI file doesn't work as expected...

Submitted by jandezz on September 12, 2006 - 5:50am

I've been using your portable apps with satisfaction for some months now.
Your idea is great and works really fine, but there's a particular I can't work out, possibly a bug.

I always used (sucessfully) INI settings to change the directory structure because of my organization of data in the thumb drive. What happens now is: I can actually move portablewhatever.exe anywhere and store with it portablewhatever.ini, where i set the variables which indicate the right paths.

But while in the previous version all was working fine, writing relative paths, now it works "half and half". I mean it works for the apps path, but not for the profile path.

sage

Submitted by raym on September 11, 2006 - 9:48pm

i'm looking for a light rss program simular to sage which is not compatable with firefox beta2

False Positive: Trojan: Downloader.Zlob (Sep 11)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on September 11, 2006 - 10:27am

The AVG Free Antivirus program's definitions went a bit wonky (technical term) today and it decided that every single portable app launcher contains a trojan. Rest assured that this is just yet *another* issue with a free antivirus program's virus definitions and there's nothing wrong with any of the portable apps. As for what to do to fix the issue, you should contact AVG and ask them to fix their mistake. Don't click 'Heal' as, to AVG, that means 'Delete the file'.

Update Sep 12 - AVG has already confirmed that this was an issue with their morning virus definitions update and has released a new definition set that fixes this problem. Also, from AVG: "If you need to restore deleted files from AVG Virus Vault you can do it this way: open AVG Virus Vault (Start -> Programs -> AVG Antivirus -> AVG Virus Vault). Locate the file that was removed, right click on it and choose "Restore File(s)" option."

Trojan Horse Downloader.Zlob -- False Positive?

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Submitted by PBoyington on September 11, 2006 - 9:03am

Apologies if this is not the place to post this, but this morning AVG anti-virus killed my portable apps due to them having the following:

Trojan Horse Downloader.Zlob

Can anyone enlighten me about this? I am hoping it is just a false positive, because I downloaded the programs again and the scan shows them to be infected also.

Thanks,
Preston

Java Runtime (JRE) on USB drive - How is it done?

Submitted by derekthegeek on September 9, 2006 - 5:32pm

I keep reading conflicting information about installing and using the Java Runtime (JRE) on a USB drive. Some posts say that it can't be done, as Sun's Java installs all sorts of registry entries, yet other posts talk about using java based programs on their USB drive with the JRE right along aside (e.g. also on the USB drive).

Is it possible to install the JRE on a USB drive so that Java apps on the USB drive can run without Java being installed on the host computer? If so, could someone point me to the install/setup instructions? Thank you very much.

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