Astute Graphics Plug-ins Elite Bundle 3.9.1.7z from teamos. *It is 678MB so I can't upload to Virustotal
Master Collection 2025 from uztracker (which is listed on monkrus's website's list of trackers). It is 37.5GB so I can't upload to Virustotal.

I'm not sure what I should to do to be honest.

Edit: Would splitting the 37.5GB file into 650MB pieces and then scanning with virustotal help? Not sure if downloaded files need to be whole for it to work properly.

This is the results from virustotal (I could only scan 4 files in the master collection without running the iso)

Thank you.

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[–] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Hey thank you for the info. Which VM do you use? How do you disable the various types of sharing with the host? Also, how do you validate? Sorry for all the questions, but that seems like it may be my only option

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I use Hyper-V because I run server 2022 and it's free. Hyper-V allows you to disable any host resource sharing in the VM settings.

On my sandbox VM I'll scan the files then install and scan, then run the software and scan. I use both defender and I think malwarebytes. It's a lot of extra work for no gain, but I'd rather be too careful than risk installing malware.

[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Note that sophisticated malware [attempts to] identify whether it is running in a VM / testbed / analysis scenario and may behave and look different between that runtime scenario and "normal use".

Analysis in a VM may not be sufficient to determine whether it is safe outside of it.

[–] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

If it detects that it is in a VM and doesn't activate the malware, then I'm perfectly okay just using the software inside the VM.

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