Author Topic: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games  (Read 1470 times)

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
« Last Edit: November 10, 2018, 06:49:30 pm by oldgamerz »
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Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2018, 07:03:42 am »
1 kilobyte ISO? I've never come across these. Care  to elaborate?

Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2018, 10:07:58 am »
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
« Last Edit: November 11, 2018, 10:12:05 am by oldgamerz »
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Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2018, 02:06:09 pm »
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.

Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2018, 03:01:57 pm »
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 :)
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Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2018, 10:23:18 pm »
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.


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Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2018, 10:53:58 am »
It is impossible to say without a sample for inspection.

My first guess is that it was a file fragment.

Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2018, 02:55:55 pm »
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.
« Last Edit: November 12, 2018, 03:01:53 pm by oldgamerz »
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