Cant download Audacity 2.3.3. - virus alert

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heavypic
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Re: Cant download Audacity 2.3.3. - virus alert

Post by heavypic » Sat Dec 14, 2019 6:10 pm

Hi All - Thanks for your replies/help.

Steve - Did you mean "3) Run a full scan of your computer with Windows Defender (overnight), or McAfee overnight? I assume you meant scan overnight with McAffee as you specify in step 2) Disable Window Defender. Is that correct?

Thanks again!
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Re: Cant download Audacity 2.3.3. - virus alert

Post by steve » Sat Dec 14, 2019 6:25 pm

Yes, that's what I meant.
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Re: Cant download Audacity 2.3.3. - virus alert

Post by Blueflame » Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:40 pm

I have used a lot of apps from PORTABLEAPPS.COM over the years, and never had a problem.#
In fact my copy of Audacity is a portable one run off a chip

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Re: Cant download Audacity 2.3.3. - virus alert

Post by steve » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:31 pm

This is going off topic, but are you aware that you can run the official Audacity release as a portable app? You just need the ZIP version, unzip it, and add a "Portable Settings" folder inside the application folder.
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Re: Cant download Audacity 2.3.3. - virus alert

Post by ve4jhj » Sat Dec 21, 2019 12:06 am

I don't want this to continue off topic - but as one of the maintainers of the PortableApps.com build, I can confirm that the package is genuine, unmodified, and free of malware. I do appreciate your hesitancy regarding anything that is not official, however our record should speak for itself (See below).

Our package is built from the official zip, and all that's done is that the files from the zip are placed in our format for consistency with our other applications, the "Portable Settings" folder is put in place, and we ensure paths are updated in settings files as users move drive letters. No changes whatsoever are made to Audacity's program files at any time.

All of our software is virus-checked prior to release, with results available for each release.
Incidentally, we have had over 7.7 million downloads of Audacity Portable since our first release of it in 2006, with 68.5 thousand of those being 2.3.3.
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Re: Cant download Audacity 2.3.3. - virus alert

Post by heavypic » Thu Dec 26, 2019 3:33 am

Hey all - OP here. Happy Holidays!

Thanks again for the help. So, I finally succeeded in downloading Audacity 2.3.3. Apparently, I had both Windows 10 Defender and McAffee running concurrently. I uninstalled McAfee; tweaked some settings in WD (can't recall which) and Audacity 2.3.3 downloaded over my previous version 2.2.2 without a hitch.

Let the vinyl rips continue...

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