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Hi Martin,

Sorry for the slow reply!

Only Audacity main installer file was affected. You mentioned that you downloaded the portable version which was clean. We checked the time signature of files to make sure.

Thank you!

Thank you, Susan! I will post an update just in case other users will encounter a similar issue in the future and maybe they find this post. In the meantime, I received an answer from them, here is the reply: Hello again - We have reviewed fosshub.com and have updated the site to a reputation score ...

@Susan - please note that my personal opinion is that WebRoot has made a mistake. If you check FossHub on VirusTotal, Sucuri, Google or any other security related service you will see that we are listed as clean. I have made a request to Webroot and requested a review. With all respect, their algori...

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