Yeah, like I said this was my first time.  I hit exclude and everything was ok after that.  I'm installed and working through the Melodyne tutorials now!
 
Thanks folks!
 

SuperG
FWIW,
 
Norton AV is passing the files along just fine - even posting a toast saying so as the DL completes.
 
TIA

Well, it isn't necessarily a virtue to have an AV program that doesn't identify patterns that could be viruses.  I used Norton years ago and ditched it after viruses got through on multiple occasions, ruining my system.  I've never had anything get through Avast.  If the goal is to never be bothered by any detection messages, just run with no anti-virus program.

I haven't had any problems with Norton, and I've been using it for over 10 years. There's just nothing in the file to alert on. My guess is that AVAST may be making the generic assumption that an .exe file, especially one with a boatload of (compressed) attached data may contain a virus. If that's the case, it would be better to internally uncompress and scan it - but that would slow performance. Not sure how Norton manages it.
 
Proof in the pudding would be to have Avast scan all the extracted files - if it passes, than indeed it has not scanned the internal files (uncompressed).

SuperG
I haven't had any problems with Norton, and I've been using it for over 10 years. There's just nothing in the file to alert on. My guess is that AVAST may be making the generic assumption that an .exe file, especially one with a boatload of (compressed) attached data may contain a virus. If that's the case, it would be better to internally uncompress and scan it - but that would slow performance. Not sure how Norton manages it.
 
Proof in the pudding would be to have Avast scan all the extracted files - if it passes, than indeed it has not scanned the internal files (uncompressed).

I think Avast is considerably more advanced than what you describe.  I haven't had any false positives for at least 6 months, until these downloads of X3.  There is clearly something peculiar in those downloads that is making Avast very unhappy.  Sometimes random patterns could match virus profiles, but evidently this is something that happens on each release.  I don't recall it happening when I installed X2.
 
The only two AV programs I trust at this stage are Avast and NOD.

NOD32 does not show any viruses in X3.

It's got to be firing off based on hueristics, not on an actual signature match. Even Norton will do that - but it does pop-up and tell you that it's based on that - not a signature match, and that's the cue to use what you know about that file in making a choice.
 
To be sure, I'd much rather have it pop-off than have it miss...
 

It's got to be firing off based on hueristics, not on an actual signature match. Even Norton will do that - but it does pop-up and tell you that it's based on that - not a signature match, and that's the cue to use what you know about that file in making a choice.
 
To be sure, I'd much rather have it pop-off than have it miss...