Malware?

[Mornincupofhate]

Just downloaded a mod inside of a compressed winrar folder. It had the mod file (like normally) and then it had a .nfo file (which winrar labeled as system information or something). Knowing my luck, I googled .nfo and the first thing that came up was malware. I havn't opened, nor extracted anything from the compressed folder. Am I safe?

[Guest]

Right click open with notepad. 

NFO is not a malware at all

 

It's just nfo files usually contain readme and guides stuff like that. Info file.

[Mira Yurizaki]

.nfo files are usually text files that the author of whatever the other files for giving credit.

 

The only reason why it probably came up on security sites is because they're often distributed with cracks, and cracks can come with malware.

[Bartez]

If you want to check your system i'd recommend to use Malwerbyte to scan your pc. It's an Anti-Spyware/adware/trojan program and it's very good at removing these things