First, let me state I have gone through every search engine and site on the Megathread before I'm asked. I've also looked through the Unsafe sites and users as well.
I have been hunting for a recent version of a piece of software for a while now and all I can seem to find are ones VirusTotal.com lists with viruses in them or from users on the Unsafe list.
The file I currently have came straight from the site AppDoze.com. Can someone let me know if AppDoze is still a reputable downloader? I've read Yes and I've read No. As you can see VirusTotal.com looks at the cracked .exe and list 6 viruses. Surely there can't be this many "false positives" in a file or can there?
Also, Windows Defender and Malwarebytes Pro both updated have had full scans run on my PC in safe mode and they show no infections which I don't understand with all the installs and uninstalls I've done from a number of sources. I'm considering BitDefender just as another layer of safety.
Anyway, if anyone could give me some insight on AppDoze, I would be most appreciative. Thanks for your input and time!
It's difficult to say. Short answer is I wouldn't trust it.
Vmprotect is a piece of DRM that obfuscates the underlying code by running the software within a custom virtual machine that makes reverse engineering the software much more challenging.
This method is sometimes used to obfuscate the actions of malicious code from being detected by security tools. I would be wary of running anything using this even if I was 100% sure I could trust the source.
If the source is unknown as it is here, I would definitely not trust it.