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Were the MD5 hashes generated with a salt value or only using the password? I believe PHPBB uses a salt, which limits the effectiveness of rainbow table attacks.

I think it only writes the log file if it crashes? The installer package has a "portable" install option that will also extract the GPG stuff needed, I'd recommend doing that. It doesn't touch the registry or anything, just makes everything really easy so you don't have problems like these...

Yeah that should fix it. Otherwise you could be installing updates from an untrusted source.

OK I just fixed that for the next release.

Ah, yes Appupdater needs GPG by default. Either set SIG_CHECK = SKIP in the appupdater.ini file or set GNUPG to the path where it can find gpg.exe.

This app has come a long way since it was first posted (now at 1.4.1) and now includes a PortableApps-style installer, but the program itself doesn't seem to start on my system. Can you provide more details and I'll try to get it resolved? What version of Windows are you using? Is there anything in...

I am the author of Appupdater. I believe it meets all of your requirements for a portable app, at least as much as an installation program is expected to. I released a portable version as "Appupdater-0.8.2-win32.zip" and all you need to do is unzip wherever you want it and you are ready to...