Plutonium

XGBoost you have special and/or non english characters in the path

The minimum version is 8.1 (latest version fully updated AND with the required redist installed)

Yes this is a false positive

Install both MP and ZM and repair. Broken or missing files

You make a lot of claims with no knowledge

Plutonium is a not a low quality crack or a pirate project just like your VPN, it's a client that has years of work and tons of additions that a lot of people can see and appreciate (and improve/use)
People seeing Plutonium as a free equality/lower quality alternative are the issues, not the project itself

A VPN does not get you banned and even if it did how are you so sure it's the VPN?
Did you read packets or read source code or something to prove your claims?

@Alyx-J this is Plutonium files, you don't need to go here.
He asked for where your game is saved. Read below

How to fix Setup not changing to Play when selecting the folder?
This happens because the path to your game has non english characters.
For example C:\Téléchargements has 2 é characters which don't exist in english so the launcher cannot read it.
Change the folders names in the path to make sure it has english characters only or move the game to a folder which doesn't contain any special character in the full path
For example C:\Telechargements or C:\Games

It can also happen if your path is too long.
If your path doesn't contain special characters then try to move your game to a shorter path and reselect it

SweatyFlaps69 make sure to type your username properly

https://forum.plutonium.pw/topic/39872/cant-get-past-fetching-updates/2

JulenIzaa ElDelMohicano
Use Cloudflare Warp

2 unknown bad antivirus showing generic detections, no
You should probably not even run VirusTotal scans if you're unable to read them
An actual malware could have 0 detections and a safe app could have several, even dozens of detections