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In 2012, SSDs were expensive luxury items, and most users still ran mechanical hard drives. A 120 MB repack installed to a drive in seconds, whereas the official 500 MB installer would take several minutes to unpack and decompress. Three words:
VMware Workstation 8.0.4 is from 2012. It contains numerous known vulnerabilities affecting both the host and guest systems. Malicious software inside a VM could potentially "escape" to your host OS using these decade-old exploits. The fact that this is a repack (modified by an anonymous third party) adds another layer of risk: unidentified binaries could contain modern malware injected after the fact. Three words: . In 2012