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If something pops up that you've never seen before, just search online for what it is. If you don't know what System Information is, literally search "what is system information windows" and find out. This can be done for so many things and you don't have to wait for an answer.
Additionally, in the "Open with..." dialog on Windows, you can see that System Information is the default application for .nfo files. Just change it to Notepad or something and you'll never have this problem again.
I'm not really sure what you mean by gathering data, an info or nfo file is just a text file with some instructions.
To me a zip file is a lot more suspicious than a normal directory of files.
I would personally be far less trusting of downloading a zip...
Same. Can't see what's in a zip until you've downloaded it.
sounds like you had a nfo file which when you doulbe clicked it opened "system information" because windows doesnt recognize nfo as a text file.
There is nothing sketchy about unzipped files, its zips with passwords you gotta watch out for. The nfo thing is just your system doesnt have an nfo viewer, you can search one up or just use notepad to open them if you want.
oh okay thank you. I was afraid because it was literally system info
Do you mean like a rar file that's been split up?
Those happen because the people doing the initial recording or rip are often using platforms with poor error detection and correction for transferring files, such as IRC. They need the built-in correction offered by rar.
They get uploaded to BitTorrents as is. BitTorrent has more sophisticated error detection and correction of chunks than rar does, so this is pointless from a strictly technical perspective.
Reminds me of the time I torrented a tar, which contained a hundred rar parts, which extracted to an iso, which extracted an installer to extract the actual (compressed) files.
What does
gather all the data
even mean? .info are just text files with some markup.
If you double click them on windows it opens some system info app iirc, maybe that's where the confusion is