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Nexus is probably the safest place to get mods for your games. Forcing premium and "custom downloader" in your face and then also requiring registration for one simple mode looks very fishy to me. 11 votes, 10 comments. I'm new to PC games, have skyrim on steam, and want to begin modding it.
Defender is the only thing you need, besides common sense. And to the question it is safe to use... If you mean Vortex then yes, if you mean the community supported Nexus mod manager that has a page on Nexus, then yes.
Nexus uses Virus Total for its virus scan. You can view the files within a download if you're suspicious. (Just click "Preview File Contents" on the mod file.) You can just download manually then scan with Windows or Malwarebytes. Then install the archive into your mod manager.
24 wrz 2010 · Over the past 18 hours or so the Nexus sites have been sporadically serving a trojan file through the ads on the site. Thanks to the logs of a few astute members on the forums I was able to identify the source of the trojan attack and have hopefully now nullified it.
14 mar 2024 · All content uploaded to Nexus Mods goes through multiple security checks and a virus scan process before being made available to download. Files that file any of these checks are placed into a quarantined state and require manual review by a moderator or Community Manager before being unlocked.
Yes. In fact the Nexus has been comprimised in the past. Will it happen? I highly doubt it, but still scan everything you download yourself to be even more sure; though even scanners can't save us 100% of the time.
18 lut 2021 · Neither of them are unsafe. Individual mods would get slammed very quickly and their creators banned, if they tried distributing viruses or other problematic code through the system. I've put in nearly 2600 hours (i think) on fallout 4 heavily modded - all from that site, never from bethesda's, and it works.
