Fortunately, many of the most popular open source applications come in portable versions that you can take with you on a USB thumb drive or other portable media. No “dangerous apps” were included, nor have they ever been since I started releasing portable software back in 2004.Įveryone is free to verify my statements with both the announcement: – you travel frequently, it can be frustrating to have to use a system that doesn’t have your favorite open source software already installed. No donations were ever sought or accepted for Ukraine or Ukrainian refugees. The suite is free, open source, 100% clean, and available for download on GitHub. I came up with the idea after connecting with some hosts who were looking for donations of clothing and bedding and reading about refugees being unable to bring their technology with them. That way non-native Ukrainian/Russian speakers can help out their guests easily. What I did was release a software suite to allow the 9+ million refugees of the war in Ukraine and their host families easily make native language computing on the host families’ PCs easier by having a standard set of apps available in both Ukrainian and Russian with an installer that can be run in any of 80 languages. There may be a small number of false positives, but all major antivirus engines do not detect threats in the downloaded files. The frightening message is overshooting it this time, as the downloaded programs test fine on Google's Virustotal service. The box 'I understand this download will harm my computer' needs to be checked before the continue download button becomes active. A click on the tiny arrow on the right of it displays information and an option to keep the download. Other browsers may display warnings or allow downloads directly.Ĭhrome displays one main action - delete - in the browser's download panel after starting a download from Portable Apps. Microsoft Edge warns users that the files are not commonly downloaded, but does not flag the downloads as malicious. Brave, which uses Google Safe Browsing, blocks the download just like Chrome. Firefox, which uses a special version of Google's Safe Browsing, downloads files just fine. Downloads in other browsers continue to work.

Portable apps suite