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For games I've played to death, having new mods can be a great way to breathe some new life into them. In my mind, it comes down to risk exposure. Everything you download from anywhere has some inherent risks associated with it. Bad people can't come over to your house and type code into your computer very easily so they'll find a way to get it on there by slipping it in along with other stuff.

Even the best software protection in the world can only protect you from threats that are already known about. In case you hadn't heard, some of the people you should be concerned about are very clever. Who or where you get your downloads from is of critical importance when you take these considerations into account.

Steam is a corporation, you can go look up all sorts of information about who they are and where they work. They have a company and a reputation to protect. This means, they will go to great lengths to ensure that you aren't getting any nasty surprises in the stuff you get from them An annonymous site with annonymous users has little to lose, so why should they care?

Who would you complain to? Who would help you fix the problems? Is there any kind of support in place or do they just take your money and leave you with all of the risk? Sure, there may well be a helpful gang of informative modders offering their assistance but any one of them could be the very guy you were trying to keep off of your system in the first place.

You don't have to have nuclear secrets on your system in order for this to be a concern either, personal information has considerable value and I suspect some folks would be very surprised to learn how just a little bit of information about you can be used to do some terrible things.

There is no way to remove all associated risk but there certainly are ways to help limit that risk. For me, I'm already uncomfortable with the amount of exposure I take on just by dealing with Steam. Going to some wild-west saloon for my games just seems a little bit nuts to me. Moddb and Nexus do have reputations to keep.

ModDB and Nexus Mods have no such issues. As you can see, there is no clear winner. As usual, the herd of mindless drones imploring that all games should only use Steam and Steam Workshop are wrong. Never sell your soul to a corporation, it does no good for you.

So this is the most versatile and detailed solution for both players and mod uploaders. As a website, there are pros and cons it has versus Nexus Mods, with the main benefit being better download speeds compared to free Nexus Mods users, but some may find Nexus easier to use, especially mod authors. Of course, you can use both!

A more recent one is mod. Far more convenient than server side modding in the past. Not many games use mod. Regarding the Malware issue, we have AV checks that use about different criteria to determine if a file is a virus or not.

If it meets enough of these checks, we always remove it and our content moderators do manually check every file. The one or two times it has been escalated and reported to the editorial team, it has always been actioned.

The initial information in the article was sourced from one particular piece of malware disguised as a mod that had been uploaded for a long time, though it has since been removed. Download Speeds. Thanks for reading! How did you like this post? Misery 2. Essential Skyrim Mods Guide. Notify of. Notes: The Download button will only appear when files or folders are selected.

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