Audacity Forum

@kofi - I just checked, the download works fine, and it is fast on our end. We did not receive any other similar reports. Please keep in mind that we serve our files from a CDN, not from a server. We served over 30000 downloads today for Audacity, and there was no similar report. Are you able to che...

@KYAudacityUser - there is a good reason why we don't use "download" buttons. The short story is that no matter what we do, the misleading ads will always find a way to show up a more extensive "download button," being either an image or a standard text. Anyway, we made a post on our blog about the ...

To confirm, the first time we hear about this, we don't have any such error message "Code 5". What happens when you click on this download link? https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html?dwl=audacity-win-2.4.2.exe Depending on your browser, the download should start automatically or prompt you to save t...

@Quantum - sorry, but what you're suggesting is that the malware was contained inside the "audacity-2.4.2.zip" file. To be more specific, this file: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html?dwl=audacity-2.4.2.zip This file always had the following signature: 0c14f7c6850c93b9dacc14fe66876b8dc3397d92dbd8...

@Quantum - I am glad you managed to sort it out, I confirm that we have no program named mail(1).zip

If you would like to double-check your computer, we have some excellent anti-malware programs listed here: https://www.fosshub.com/Anti-Malware.html

Thank you!

@Quantum - no worries, the Windows Installer is the first link - hover your mouse over the first link, you will see it is the same I copied and pasted you, this one: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html?dwl=audacity-win-2.4.2.exe I added a red arrow - you downloaded the ZIP file (highlighted with t...

@Quantum Do you still have both versions of Audacity installed or downloaded? 2.4.2 or 2.3.0? If so, test the file signatures for both of them. You can do it using a command-line file signatures program or, as Steve suggested - upload them to VirusTotal, which will scan the applications you download...

Hey guys, @waxcylinder - that misleading ad is deceptive, misleading - we blocked it a dozen times so far, automatically placed by Google but harmless. It does not contain any malware. There are over 160 ads, manually verified all of them, and blocked the misleading ads - see the attached images bel...

@christopher1 - we checked, and the download works fine in all major browsers. From your description, I would say that you're using a third-party browser add-on that prevents you from downloading correctly—the same scenario for some download managers. Quickest fix: try to download using a different ...

Thank you Peter!

The single ad we have is now surrounded by:

2 x Report misleading | Advertisement
2 x Donate to remove ads
+ space was increased to make it more obvious it is an ad there.