What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games

[oldgamerz]

I used to emulate video games. But I stopped this a while back. I never understood games that you can download a 1 kilobyte ISO that seems completely worthless. Of course I stopped downloading games a long time ago before I started collecting.

Some people may say laugh out loud but I don't find this funny and It always puzzled me. My guess is that is was a virus. But what I never could figure out is why I mean what is the point? of these unmarked files all over the internet

It cost money to run a website so whats with the possible malware up for tricking people

[Agozer]

1 kilobyte ISO? I've never come across these. Care  to elaborate?

[oldgamerz]

1 kilobyte ISO? I've never come across these. Care  to elaborate?

sometimes when I downloaded something back in 2013, The ISO file size was 1kb or was a file that was completely unmarked and needed to be pried off my hard drive because it just would not delete. And sometimes I would literally have to force it off my hard drive like change the coding or name and or extension. A lot of these files appear worthless and also undetected under most virus software. All I can say is that there is a such thing on somewhere on the internet.

But I don't even know how to open ISO files, and don't really care to use abandonware games any more or any kind of pirated video game

[Agozer]

If it's a standard file with the .iso file extension, it functions like a compresed archive. You can check its contents with the likes of WinRAR and 7-Zip.

[oldgamerz]

If it's a standard file with the .iso file extension, it functions like a compresed archive. You can check its contents with the likes of WinRAR and 7-Zip.

Thanks for the information @Agozer

[ffxik]

Were you using Internet Explorer to download these?  If so IE had trouble handling large file sizes.  Generally when downloading a file it will create a placeholder in your downloads folder.  After completion of the download this is usually deleted.  IE had a bad habit of "completing" large downloads but only leaving you with the placeholder instead.

I had this problem a lot when I was using it.  Switching to either Firefox, or Chrome was the fix for that issue back then.

[tripredacus]

It is impossible to say without a sample for inspection.

My first guess is that it was a file fragment.

[oldgamerz]

Were you using Internet Explorer to download these?  If so IE had trouble handling large file sizes.  Generally when downloading a file it will create a placeholder in your downloads folder.  After completion of the download this is usually deleted.  IE had a bad habit of "completing" large downloads but only leaving you with the placeholder instead.

I had this problem a lot when I was using it.  Switching to either Firefox, or Chrome was the fix for that issue back then.

Yes exactly, I was only using Internet Explorer back then in 2013

It is impossible to say without a sample for inspection.

My first guess is that it was a file fragment.

probally some kind of fragment I guess probably also an issue with Internet Explorer because that is what I used to use for everything.