Security Apps Support

I just recently noticed that Portable ClamWin stores the Drive Letter of the first start in the profiles. This can be rather tricky when working with different drive letters. When the drive letter is removed, upon next downloads of the virus definitions (or even during updates) the drive letters will be stored again in the profile.
Could anybody find a solution (or patch) to permanently remove the storage of drive letters in the profile. The path starting from "\" would be sufficient (like on Portable Thunderbird, Firefox, etc.)

Regards,
desrtfx

I'm using a USB Flash drive with the ClamWin installed -- it will work on an XP machine, but not on a Win98SE machine.

Are there files missing in order for this to run on an W98SE machine?

Can you suggest a workaround that will make this work.

Thanks in advance.

jwr

I love the FF extension ClamGlue, and i like how Winpooch is able to hook ClaimWin, but this all seems to work if Clam is installed on the hard-drive, not on the USB.

So my question is, how would i go about getting portable ClamWin to integrate with Winpooch (on the USB) and portable FF + the ClamGlue extension?

Is this even possible?

With a little trial and error I've managed to set up pFirefox to use my install of pClamWin AV to automatically scan downloads. I am using the Download Statusbar 0.9.4.1 extention and used the example from the ClamWin website for enabling virus scans in Winzip. It required one change to keep pClamWin AV from choking on the spaces in the filename.

From the ClamWin website (http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/117/89/):
Scan Program: C:\Program Files\ClamWin\bin\ClamWin.exe
Parameters: --mode=scanner --path="%d" --close

In the Virus Scan tab of the extension options:
Anti-Virus program location: G:\Portable Apps\PortableClamWin\PortableClamWin.exe

I tried to put Clamwin into U3 format but I get a problem when I tried to download the new virus definitions:

Could not start process:
"C:\Program Files\ClamWin\bin\freshclam.exe" --stdout --datadir="C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/.clamwin/db" --config-file="c:/docume~1/than/locals~1/temp/tmp8vuov6" --log="c:/docume~1/than/locals~1/temp/tmpizwjzu"
Error: Could not start process.
C:\Program Files\ClamWin\bin\freshclam.exe
File does not exist.

it was clear that Clamwin doesn't recognise the drive letter (mine was H:) so it goes to drive C:

I didn't edit anything yet. So I think I have to edit a perimeter somewhere so that ClamWin would recognise the U3 drive letter.

I just download portable ClamWin 0.88.2.3, but i can not extract the file to my flashdisk. It's show messsenge ClamWin 0.88.2.3.exe is not supported archive..
Please, i want to install this apps hurry.. THX.

Is there anyway I can auto update? any switches etc.

Currently I run a few things when I first run up PStart, and would like to update clamwin too. I tried the freshclam.exe but it wants a config, which is clamd.conf (the linux name from what I recall)... I tried pointing it to the ClamWin.conf but it looks like these are not the same.

Also, the clamwin/ and app/clamwin/ folders have the same files... is there any reason for this?

I sue Portable apps nd keep them on a separate drive to my Widnoes installation. Is there a way I can add "scan with clamwin" to the context menu in the way that exists with the non-portable version?

You can shrink it more...
...just use UPX on PortableClamWin\App\clamwin\lib\*.pyd
15.0 MB -> 11.4 MB (both including over 3MB of updates)
10.7 MB -> 7.13 MB (without updates), so over 3.5MB is saved (1/3 !)

BTW, great job!
Greetings

pps

When I try running ClamWin on a write protected usb drive I get errors saying it is unable to write to the media. Why does ClamWin require writing to the drive?

I use my USB drive for repairing infected machines and as a precaution I keep my usb key write protected. Ideally ClamWin should have the option of running on a read only disk.