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Always be careful when installing any 3rd party software, I personally haven't experienced anything bad with the windows 8 patcher. I've carried this version of the patcher since Windows 8.1 was still supported a long time ago and I currently use Windows 8.1 in a virtual machine, essentially as a video player for my anime and disconnected from the internet.

Here is a virus scan from VirusTotal.