I've just run multiple checks on the LAME download page and it looks fine - no sign of any malware or viruses, but thanks for your report - it is important to be vigilant about malware and viruses.
You can find Buanzo's response to the previous time this issue came up, here. There is a contact e-mail for Buanzo at the top of the download page, so in the event that anyone does find that any of the adverts contain malware he can be contacted and will take immediate action to remove it. McAfee will be on alert simply because you are downloading an executable (a program) so it does not take much to trigger an alarm. The costs are offset by advertising.Īs Internet advertising is largely automated there is always a risk that from time to some third party advertiser may link to something naughty which can trigger "dangerous site" warnings. As you can probably imagine, with millions of Audacity users downloading LAME (and FFMpeg) there are significant costs, particularly for the bandwidth. Buanzo hosts builds of LAME and FFMpeg that work in Audacity on a server in Argentina where it is legal to do so. So I'm guessing there are really no problems with the file, but for some reason the site linked to from the Audacity pages is also setting off alarms at McAfee.ĭangerous-Lame.gif (56.75 KiB) Viewed 4791 timesĪs you are probably aware there are copyright issues in some countries regarding MP3 encoding technology and for these reasons Audacity cannot be shipped with MP3 encoding capability. The checksums are also identical, and I scanned both with McAfee and both times came back with a clean scan. The file was also the same 516 k size as the previous one. McAfee didn't pop up any warning this time. In that thread Gale Andrews offered another site to download it: I downloaded it anyway, opened the folder and scanned the downloaded file with McAfee. I saw another thread or two on here about similar issues, such as this one indicating it may have been a banner ad or an issue with ESET:īut in this case, I had already downloaded the FFMPEG file from the same page, and the warning didn't pop up until I tried to download LAME. g-Ins#lame to install Lame, but got a dire warning from McAfee that it contained a virus etc. I followed the link from the Audacity FAQ: Installation & Plug-Ins page.
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