I would add "Solved" to the title of this post, to let people see the problem was resolved.

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.
 

Great,
 
all very good tips from you guys, much apriciated and staight away implemented.
Exempting the whole cakewalk folder and al its related folders makes a lot of sence; i hope Sonar will start up quicker as than it does now. My standard opening project (empty) is a project with all the VST plugins that i have open (=they all have a track, or more precicely a folder track in which an audio and a midi track) with the FX rack and prochannel all set up as i like it. This takes a while to load. (wtiting this down i gave it a count; 10 audio tracks and 20 midi folders for the VST)
Maybe exempting the virus scanner from the Sonar folder might speed up the proces. Then again if im not misstaken there was an update that was adressing this subject, but unfortunatly i didnt get that update.
 
btw, nice listening to all the music you guys are making, i dont frequent this forum very much, but i feel a change a commin' 
 
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PS i dont know how to change the title and add "Solved"

Just edit your original post title by going back into the original topic post. Or wait until one of the forum moderators do it.