Apologies regarding 'Free Audio Recorder' from the Softpedia site. I have never before had problems with that site, not one PUP ended up on my system let alone anything worse - however those with malevolent intentions are getting more clever at deceiving even the most respected hosting sites. It looks like Softpedia, like so many other previously respected download sites is slipping. I'll certainly heed Rich's advice.
It is possible that the problem was a false positive but it is not worth taking risks - I downloaded the zipped installer file for the program and ran Malwarebytes and Avast scans of the file that revealed no problems but Comodo Firewall alerted me to a problem as soon as I tested the unzipped installer. I allowed Comodo to block and quarantine the reported file and cleared the installer from my system which I willnow scan.
N3, if you haven't already tried Audacity, it may be worth a go.