anti virus Bullguard has removed my start screen!! SOLVED!

Go to your Cakewalk Account and download it again.
 
Or look in your Cakewalk download files - it should still be there.

After installing the 2017.06 Early Release I got a firewall warning from Norton Security that SonarStartScreen.exe didn’t have a valid digital signature. The program apparently tried to connect to the Cakewalk server through port 443 which is a secure port. I reported this issue in the thread below and as far as I can see the problem was taken care of in the regular 2017.06 release. At least - I haven’t got any warnings from Norton after the latest update and I can't remember having added any firewall exception.
 
So do you by any chance have the 2017.06 Early Release installed? If so, I guess your best option would be to run the regular 2017.06 installation. If not, I have no idea.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3622578

Hi Guys, thanks for the feedback.
 
Comand Center is not the problem but the Start Screen; when you have Sonar open>file>Start Screen. If i click it now nothing happens and the screen is not visible during start up.
So i scanned my computer for SonarStartScreen.exe and nothing turns up. My version of Sonar Platinum is: 2016.10 (22.10.0.19). Eventhough i dont have rolling updates atm, i stil get some updates now and again, the last one was a couple adays ago, just before bullguard removed the  Start Screen program.
 
 

Windows Firewall shows the following paths on my computer:
 
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\StartPage\CakewalkStartScreen.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\StartPage\CakewalkStartScreen.exe

It might be helpful to make an exception for the start screen exe.
I know I personally have exceptions for almost any program within sonar.
(including Sonar itself and the plug in manager)
This is not per say to avoid quarantine, its more to keep my antivirus from scanning Sonar parts while im working on projects. I want all my resources on Sonar, you know what I mean.

The next time you run the antivirus scanner, it's probably going to put the exe back into quarantine again.
 
I'm not familiar with your particular antivirus software, but all of them support whitelists. They have to, because there are always going to be false positives with any scanner. Most allow you to exempt an entire folder, and if Bullguard does you'll want to exempt the entire \program files\cakewalk tree. Otherwise, it's going to scan not only the handful of executables there but also all your DLLs, e.g. every plugin. Even if it doesn't raise any false positives, it's extra time during the scan to examine files you already know are safe (nobody's ever planted a virus in a VST).
 
You might also want to exempt your sample libraries, if you have any. Some scanners don't trust the file extension and will scan them, because they could conceivably be renamed executables. As you can imagine, it takes a long time to scan thousands of wave files.
 

PS i dont know how to change the title and add "Solved"