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I want to share my full experience with Cherax, in the exact order it happened, because people deserve to know what they are getting into.
First, I bought Cherax through one of their “official resellers”. The purchase itself worked fine. Before downloading anything, I went to Reddit to ask a simple question:
Is it normal that Chrome blocks the Cherax download and Windows Defender warns about a virus?
My post was instantly removed by moderators in both Cherax-related communities. I wasn’t accusing anyone of malware – I was literally just asking if this was normal behavior. The fact that they deleted it immediately made everything look suspicious from the start.
Next, before trying anything on my real PC, I tested the download inside a Virtual Machine to be safe. Even inside a clean VM with nothing else running, Chrome still refused to download the file and Windows Defender reacted the second I tried. The loader was blocked before it even touched the system. At this point, I suspected it was either extremely unstable software or something Cherax didn’t want people to look too closely at.
Only after all of this did I upload the file to VirusTotal to get objective results.
40 out of 72 security vendors flagged the CheraxLoader.exe as malicious, including well-known engines like BitDefender, Avast, Kaspersky and many more. That is not a small “false positive”. That is almost half of all scanners saying the file looks like a trojan.
To be clear:
• I am not blaming the reseller.
• The problem is the Cherax loader itself.
• I never even installed the file because Chrome and Windows Defender refused to let it run.
But the biggest red flag for me was the silence and censorship.
When you cannot even ask a basic safety question on Reddit without being instantly removed, it tells me Cherax is more interested in hiding concerns than addressing them.
After seeing the VirusTotal results, combined with Chrome and Defender both blocking it before execution, I cannot recommend anyone to run the Cherax loader on their system.
Cherax needs to be transparent about what their software does and why it triggers such massive security warnings. Until then, users should be extremely careful.
29 November 2025
Unprompted review