If you are concerned about the safety of the installer, please feel free to download the zip version of Audacity and check that for viruses. Try downloading the installer to your Desktop and running it from there. Some anti-virus applications can also block installers if you run them from temporary space. This can happen because Audacity uses a compressed installer. Nonetheless, virus checkers can occasionally report false positives for the Audacity installer for Windows (.exe). It is developed by a not-for-profit volunteer group, and the source code is available for anyone to study or use. to view the report for .Īudacity is always completely free and open source when downloaded from us. Please review independent verification of the Audacity software by visiting the search page, entering 'audacity' (without quotes) in the search box and clicking the 'Search it!' button.

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