VCap Downloader Pro

– In response to “IAMB9 October 27, 2022 at 5:58 am Please dont install this application. It contains malware. Just check it via virustotal. My Kaspersky blocked this application. If you dont believe me, you can check it by yourself.”

No, VCap Downloader Pro v0.1.5 does NOT contain malware, and VirusTotal confirms this.

2 things.

1 – Go to VirusTotal and read the results, there are NO actual ‘detections’, there is nothing found to be malicious in this program, only 2 ‘signature/rule’ matches ( what I consider to be overzealous, that is, they would ding the ‘format’ command because, hey, it can erase things, oh my! But it makes their software test as finding more ‘things’ than other anti-malware programs. ):
– – Rising finds Spyware.Zbot!8.16B (TFE:5:A2XxEghizAT)
– – – Note: Rising-Global. com China stopped their public presence in 2013 and their site can’t be reached.
– – Trapmine finds Suspicious.low.ml.score
– – – Note: Trapmine. com Estonia user software is available only through contact with their company, no ‘trial’ download for the general public, in other words, they serve their customer’s preferences, not necessarily WinningPC user’s preferences.
– – Kaspersky * finds . . . NOTHING!

2 – VCap Downloader Pro v0.1.5 is ‘unsigned’ **, so Microsoft and others consider it ‘untrustworthy’, NOT because it is untrustworthy, but because they have no audit trail for the author or any way of knowing if it is original or has been modified . . . hence why we go to VirusTotal to check things out, we even check signed programs directly from Microsoft, yes we do!

* Note: Kaspersky is Russian, so there’s that, but Kaspersky at VirusTotal did NOT ding this program, Kaspersky in the wild may ding this program ONLY because it is unsigned, NOT because this program is infected.

** Note: A signed program is digitally signed and associated with a separate digital certificate that identifies the publisher and allows auditing to see if the program has been modified to no longer match the certificate. Some download programmers do NOT want to be easily dinged by lawyers from Warner Brothers and the Motion Picture Association, so the programmers don’t want to ‘sign’ their work, it puts them at risk as self-identified ‘low hanging fruit’ for spurious lawsuits. Downloading is ‘fair use’ ‘time shifting’ and NOT illegal ( only re-sharing other people’s copyright might be against ‘license’ ). So, if we want good programs to download stuff for us, they may be unsigned for a reason.

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VCap Downloader Pro v0.1.5 installs under the ‘user’ directory, which I do not like ( I like all programs to be easily findable in ‘programs’ ), but it allows this to install where some users have no permission because their company’s tech support locks the ‘program’ directories for administrators only, so this should install on even limited-access computers just fine.

It works for me, no scary risky results, it just does not also grab optional subtitles that are displayed over the video rather than inside the video, drat.

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