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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 points 20 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 2 hours 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."

[-] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

The main settings that I mentioned are under integration services settings on the VM. There's probably plenty of guides available on YouTube for Hyper-V along with the official Microsoft documentation (which probably isn't that great).