so I been trying to download linux, but it comes in a zip file, once installed. I noticed 7zip was recommended to convert it but when i ran 7zip or winrar in Virustotal is showed up as a malware cynet score 100. I dont know if it was a false positive .
So now I am stuck on not being able to download linux to install. any ideas? help? next thought was vmware then install Ubuntu. recommendations appreciated
Are you trying to download Kali Linux? That can be detected as malware due to it containing hacking tools.
You can try to download the .iso file and installing that in vmware, you can also take a look at the checksums and compare the checksum of your file, with the checksum they have on the website.
If these match and you are downloading it from official source you are fine and it can be ignored.
EDIT: Just noticed this post is 6 months old… l will just keep this here, maybe it can be useful to someone sometime…