I awoke this morn to an ominous prompt to update some unknown and unidentified software. As a recent victim of vicious hacking that left me temporarily $400 overdrawn, alarm bells were ringing madly. After investigating in Task Manager and seeing it was Bandlab, I okay-ed the update. REALLY, Meng and Bandlab Bakers, pa-LEESE properly identify your updates in the future. This heart is kinda old, yunno?   

And in general, add more customizability to bandlab\cakewalk, it feels really outdated to not be able to install software in the folder you want, setup program folders or to easily disable autorun on startup, etc.

Thanks for posting this. I came here for the same reason. I saw this message at home last night and now again at work (where I also installed the new Cakewalk). This is absolutely unacceptable and they need to change this TODAY.
 
A message appears on my screen saying "Updates are available" with zero information about the program or the company name. I was 99% sure it was a virus and it took a bit of investigating with Process Explorer to figure out. I don't even know why that bandlab assistant is running on my computers. At no time did it ask my permission to keep running after I closed it and frankly I don't want or need to have it running. When I want to check for updates I'll do it manually, thanks. The last thing I want is another program running, stealing CPU cycles and memory.
 
Very scary. This is a huge black mark on the company already. It makes me wonder what else they've snuck onto my computers.
 
On the bright side, I did test the program on a huge song (over 200 tracks, almost 10 minutes long) last night and had no problems so it's a good news, bad news day so far! Thanks very much to Bandlab but you need to be more transparent in certain areas.
 
Scott

Happened to me also...I was in the middle of mixing down and the pop up scared me. Glad you posted this. I thought it was a potential virus carrying app also.
 
 
 

Ditto but also when I clicked to update it came up with a Java error so I am still on BA version 3.0.3 

This happened to me yesterday just after installation and causing a slight panic. Having backed up everything last week I decided to go ahead and "run the update" anyway, which proved to be OK.
Either identify the program causing the update to run or allow us to turn off the BandLab Assistant.

So sorry if it was something it was confusing or scary guys - we will add the clarification message in the next update - we missed this one before launch.

We push updates and improvements to BandLab extremely regularly on all platforms, though - it may get some getting used to but I think you'll be pleased! :-)

In case you're worried, it's only updating BandLab Assistant as we noticed a few launch bugs, not CbB.

Option to Enable and Disable BLA at startup is also coming in the next update!

I'm seeing this message everytime I boot up, and when I choose to update I see I am up to date. So it's like a nag window.
 

Don't panic. BandLab assistant configures itself to run automatically when you boot. Whether or not you consider that a convenience (to check for updates regularly) or not is up to you. You can remove it from the autostart list if it's annoying.
 
I elected to disable it from running on boot, because I am not a BandLab user and probably never will be, and only care if cakewalk.exe is updated. Grab a copy of autoruns, part of the Sysinternals collection and a handy utility to have. Search for "BandLab Assistant" (it's under HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run in the registry) and un-check it.

bitflipper
I elected to disable it from running on boot, because I am not a BandLab user and probably never will be, and only care if cakewalk.exe is updated. Grab a copy of autoruns, part of the Sysinternals collection and a handy utility to have. Search for "BandLab Assistant" (it's under HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run in the registry) and un-check it.

That doesn't actually work as mentioned here as when you reopen the app it adds the registry value back, but meng is on to it :-)