No I haven’t tried Renoise yet. I was waiting for a responce from Bitdefender. Maybe I have to go on their website to see if there is an answer. If it safe as you say I will try Renoise again this coming weekend. I will let you know if there is an issue.
People seem to get paranoid 
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You get a virus warning for the file “license.txt”?
You don’t need a virus scanner for that. You would need a lawyer to fix it. It is a plain text file with some legalese for the software.
This won’t infect anyone, it might put you into sleep however if you keep reading it over and over again.
Whoever programmed that virus scanner doesn’t know how to detect and exclude plain text files from the search?
I cant imagine paying for AV software in 2024. Hope this isnt pride before a fall lol
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What about using a proper ingoing/outgoing firewall instead? On macos for example, there is Little Snitch, a really advanced, lightweight firewall. A real firewall will give you much higher security than all those shitty all-in-one virus protections. Also look for open source, and also disable all the microsoft services calling to the internet, because most likely these will have security holes, and the more stuff is open, the bigger the attack surface.
Of course you can’t use anything Microsoft internal then, if you want real security.
Seriously, this is one reason why I am happy not to have to manage Windows anymore, with it’s 100 system services all calling to the internet, and nowadays hardly having a open source, proper firewall for it. macos is now the same story, about 120 system services, from which you can disable 20-30 and also blocking most of it.
But you need to know what you are doing/blocking.
You also do not need a “live” file scanner, it just slows down Windows like hell. All those anti virus suites are extremely badly programmed, and will slow down general file access. Actually the whole concept is totally flawed. Instead, use a proper firewall configuration and then scan the system only from time to time, using an open source scanner. And use your brain, use a proper web browser and email client, do not automatically load all email attachments, do not double click the excel file from the Nigerian prince who offers you a million dollars.
I mean, with Windows 11, there seems to be no good reason anymore to use Windows at all, since their only advantage, staying compatible no matter what seems to be gone. Besides gaming… You can also install hackintosh on your pc, just that you know… Or best, use Linux, and learn the basics of real internet security.
a virus in a license is a license to ill
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“Shell Shock” …enough said about open source security (roffles).
It took like twenty years of open source development to find it finally.
Isn’t the license file just… rubbish? I never needed it for anything. I always thought it was some sort of developer joke haha.
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There’s a “Renoise.license” file included with your registered download/installation.
Found in: C:\Program Files\Renoise 3.4.3\ for example.
That file is encoded with your personal license details.
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For whatever reason, OP’s antivirus software thinks that file is somehow infected with malware.
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Anything you download directly from the Renoise Backstage area is 100% safe – free from viruses, free from malware, etc…
If it wasn’t safe, then the forum would be flooded every day with hundreds of people complaining about this problem.
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Clearly that’s not the case. (And in my 20+ years of using Renoise, I’ve never, ever had such a warning from the many different AV software packages I’ve used…)
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So I think we can pretty safely rule this whole mess out as a simple false positive.
That is… Assuming that the files haven’t been tampered with somehow by another third party source… perhaps a virus or some other crud on OP’s system itself (which could be more worrying, and worth further investigation by OP)… but this is definitely nothing to do with Renoise itself.
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The typical AV heuristic stuff is definitely not an exact science, and it will always be prone to triggering some false detections now and then, until things get fine-tuned by the AV devs themselves.
It happens now and then, even with the most legitimate of software.
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Just stay safe, keep it legit, and use your common sense. 
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