-snip- I tried to link here the Thomas V topic I took from a local forum.
Security-wise, the portable version doesn't have anything different from the normal "
versions".
It's just flagged to save the electrum data directory where the portable executable is.
The warning is regarding to its use-case when the electrum-portable.exe and its electrum_data directory are stored in a flash drive which is usually plugged in different computers.
But if you're using it only on a specific computer, it's no different than the stand-alone version except for the data_directory's location.