What I found to be the best way to get around all these worries about virus and other nonsense, especially when it comes to loading Chinese software, is to load it all in a virtual machine. All my radio programming software from various manufacturers gets installed in a Windows 10 VM, whether from a legitimate company such as Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom, RT Systems, or any of the Chinese companies such as Anytone or TYT. I always take a Snapshot prior to installing any new software and can restore the VM to its prior state with a couple mouse clicks should I get bit. The best part is I can take a copy of that VM and run it on any other machine, even if the host is Linux or Windows.
I use VMware, which works great. A very good free for personal use VM software is made by Oracle called VirtualBox. I have used both and have no complaints about either one.
As for using anti-virus software such as Norton and McAfee, they are a virus within themselves and one has to manually remove all traces from the registry after using their "uninstall" program. Keep it simple and use Windows Defender.