Security Apps Support

I downloaded PortableApps suite and installed in my USB stick. All worked well. I then decided to download the latest version 0.91.2.0 of ClamWin Antivirus from Sourceforge.com. I downloaded it to my desktop. Then I rightclicked and “Sent to” my USB stick, G:\PortableApps\ClamWinPortable folder. I then navigated to that folder and deleted my old “ClamWinPortable.exe” file, leaving the “App”, “Data”, and “Other” folders and a “help.html” file. I opened the new downloaded ClamWin setup file and it immediately produced a new folder entitled “ClamWin”.

Hi,

I have a slight problem. I have installed on a flash disk the latest version of ClamWin portable and when I try to start the application (no matter if it is through the PortableApps Menu or Explorer) the antivirus shows the splash screen and immediately closes.

John hasn't updated to v1.10 yet, but it has a new feature which is nice for portable app users. Called "Placeholders" you can override the default browser used for URLs in two ways.

On a per-entry basis by modifying the URL:

cmd://{FIREFOX} "http://foo.bar.baz"

As a global override by adding this line to your KeePass.ini:

KeeUrlOverride=cmd://{FIREFOX} "{URL}"

I have released an update to my automatic virus definitions updater for ClamWin Portable. New in v0.3.2 of ClamWinPortableDBUpdate is a custom popup notifier (no more Windows balloons!) as well as some behavioral improvements.

You can get all the details at http://clamup.co.nr/. It may take a while for co.nr's cache to reflect the latest uploads; if you don't see v0.3.2, then I suggest you try my direct link: http://mkonar.selfip.com/clam/.

-Mithat

There is a security vulnerability in ClamAV .091.2 [the underling program for ClamWin {the underling program for ClamWinPortable}]

It is discussed here:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=634

As a workaround while we await ClamWin .092 [and then ClamWinP .092] the following is suggested,

"V. WORKAROUND
Disabling the scanning of PE files will prevent exploitation. If using clamscan, this can be done by running clamscan with the '--no-pe' option. If using clamdscan, set the 'ScanPE' option in the clamd.conf file to 'no'. "

Hey, I am trying to minimize the size of clamwin portable and operate it with a .cmd script file (located on a USB flash drive)

Is there a compilation of ClamWin Portable without GUIs that iscommand line driven only?

I tried just using command line arguments, but I get errors when trying to update using freshclam "cannot parse config file .\clamd.conf", any thoughts on how to update using the command line in ClamWin Portable?

I can scan using:

I have tried redownloading it and everything. It was working fine yesterday just today it comes up with
Scan Started Wed Dec 19 17:02:16 2007
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ERROR: Unable to open file or directory

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 177764
Engine version: 0.91.2
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 0
Skipped non-executable files: 0
Infected files: 0

Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Time: 7.735 sec (0 m 7 s)
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Completed
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Hi,

As many of you guys and girls I carry around my usb disk with keepass and a file with some sensitive info on it.

However, I was realizing the other day that is not the best thing to do.

KP is open source so everybody can compile a new -and adapted- version of KP. They could modify it to store or send passwords. So, imagine this scenario:

-I'm at work but dying for some coffee. So, I lock my pc and go to the coffee machine.
-A sneaky person takes out my usb disk and copies his (her?) ADAPTED version of KP onto it.
-He (she) replaces the disk

When trying to delete Clamwin folder I get an error stating:

Cannot delete ExpShell: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

The file is not in use, the disk is not full. Any suggestions on how to delete would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Could someone explain what the purpose of this app is please. From what I am reading it doesn't provide active virus protection because it doesn't run resident on the thumb drive. So what does it do? Does it just do an on demand scan of the thumb drive? If so could you not just use a antivirus program that is already on the machine to scan the drive or am I missing something here? Thanks.