Windows 10: Is AOMEI BackUpperFull.exe safe?

I recently had my PC technician over to try to backup my pc.

He went and got a program called Aomei Backupper. On the site it strangely had the option to download from Cnet so he did.

In the end it wasn't to our liking cause it was limited in what it could do so we uninstalled it.

Later on after a bit of research there are two versions of the same product.

Theres one on the actual site of the company known as: http://www.aomeitech.com/

And there is a product specific site called: http://www.backup-utility.com/download.html

The second one was the version that my pc technician used and he went through the Cnet link to get an exe file called: backupperfull.exe

I was wondering if the second site is a sleezy offshoot domain that lures people to cnet and other freeware site versions of the software in an attempt to to give pups?

Secondly I'd like to know if backupperfull.exe contains any viruses or bundles.

Several people say that the versions they get are ok but if there are multiple sources of receiving them, then maybe we accidentally got a bad version.

As of now I have gone to a restore point before in/uninstallation and made sure any traces of interacting with the site were gone. But for peace of mine I need to know if my pc was in any danger.

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Windows 10 Installation error 80070003 - Need a fix

Windows 10 Disk Manager calls my 1st partition OEM. AOMEI calls it WINRE. AOMEI has the option to change the label where Windows does not. I suspect that the label that can be changed with AOMEI is not the important one.

Windows

Simple Basic Healthy (OEM Partition) 1.21 GB 1.21 GB 100%

AOMEI

*WINRE NTFS 1.21 GB 254.73 GB 982.38 MB GPT None

So if AOMEI calls it WINRE, is that good enough? If AOMEI allows me to "change label" is that good enough?

 

The Aomei Partition Manager

Hello there,

Domain aomeisoftware.com and extend-partition.com doesn't have open information about their company. Usually, a company must provide clear information about their identity publicly to do fair business.

Aomei softwares downloaded link (hxxp://aomeisoftware.com/download/ddm/DDM_Pro.exe) flagged as Malicious by CRDF earlier, Scan report for http://aomeisoftware.com/download/adb/Backupper.exe at 2017-10-26 21:59:31 UTC - VirusTotal

Recommended to use Windows in-built Partition (Disk Management) tool unless require of third-party tools for advanced use.

It's up to you now, decide to use this tool.

#D09r

 

Unlikely - AOEMI is well respected tool.

 

But what about it being on cnet?

 

Why not download the software direct from the developer's website then you can be sure.

 

But that wasn't where it was downloaded. I need to know the version that entered my computer was safe.

 

What antivirus do you use?

 

Windows defender. I took the exe to virus total and it appears to turn up clean.

 

Then I'm sure it is. VIrusTotal uses multiple engines.