How to validate a large torrented file is clean? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

How do you validate that what you torrented is clean/no malware/spyware? Specifically, I torrented two things:

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Thank you for the detailed response. Just to confirm, is Hyper-V your sandbox VM? I used ESET to scan the files I torrented, but they look very suspicious from virustotal, but I don't really know how to parse the info - knowing if it is a false positive/etc.

[-] USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 points 18 hours ago

Hyper-V is the hypervisor that the VM runs on. Yeah I don't really know which malware scanners are the go to ones anymore. Just figure if I can get it to pass through 2 different ones ok then it's probably ok. I'm sure there's some other good ones out there. I've heard of ESET and virustotal, but I'm not familiar.

[-] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Do you know of any guides to set up Hyper-V for this type of purpose? I want it to be as secure as can be: "disable any type of sharing with the host, no copy paste, no sharing disks, etc."