I used to download a lot on the internet, and sometimes when I would download something, usually something like a program or a video game mod for example, I would sometimes get a seemly useless file along with my download
Sometimes it would not have a file size or even a file extension, I used to force delete these files and 100% of the times I did this, nothing would seem to happen, the mod just worked fine without it.
Sometimes I would change the file extension, change the code or rename the file, and pry the unknown files off my computer, first off no malware detection program ever saw one of these files as a threat,
What are these files used for?
I believe that these useless files were malware, hence the reason why I could not remove them off my windows 7 or XP computer. without bitterly prying them off my computer
Sometimes the files I would delete had 1-5 kilobytes, tell me what would have happened if I left these files alone?
Just curious if I was right about these things being no good or malicious