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You are responsible in preventing Viruses etc. by what you download and install from ANY website.
External mods you download offsite are use at your own risk.
But they don't transfer between devices.
If you just stick to the official sources then no. At least it is very unlikely to ever receive malware from Valve directly, but not impossible.
Games you download via Steam come from Valve servers only and you can not alter those. You yourself would have to add malware later.
Make sure to only use official and trustworthy software and check downloads via www.virustotal.com
The truth often lies somewhere in the middle, especially in this business. Many of these providers also deliberately make false statements regarding the so called dangers, as they are primarily concerned with their own profit interests and not with the protection of the users environment.
Therefore, make sure to check different sources to be on the safe side. And if you are completely unsure, test stuff in a sandbox/vm first.
Wouldn’t using a new pc, a new Windows OS and redownloading Steam mean I’m clean? I don’t think the virus can be stored and redownloaded through Steam’s own files… but idk.
I forgot what happened, It was a really old issue and I simply just stopped playing then the rest was history.
It could, potentially, also store something in your steam cloud save, but it's hard to say without knowing how the game works, etc. Unlikely, but not impossible.
And to answer your question "can steam games contain malware?":
Yes. They can. As in: it's technically perfectly possible,
but afaik. it hasn't happened yet because there are controls in place to prevent it. Software and games get scanned and tested (automatic sandbox runs, etc.) before being let onto the steam download network, and the person registered as the game publisher/developer needs to go through a process before selling stuff, and is legally responsible for what they put on there - in other words it would be hard to get away with.
But of course, in essence it's just like "could microsoft send an update that wiped my computer?", of course they could. It's just very unlikely and it wouldn't be in their interest (there are more profitable ways to screw you over :). I know this may not be precisely the essence of your question, but thought I'd point it out since it's technically relevant.
Take the advice everyone else here has given: don't download shoddy trainers and mods from 3rd party sites. Even if the site itself is legit there's just no way they have the capacity for vetting every dev/uploader and properly scanning everything that gets uploaded. More serious projects and sites have suffered problems far worse, that should give you an idea.
Also, remember that if you've downloaded other software of any kind, at any time, you won't any longer know if it was the RE4 mod or something else that caused this. Plenty of malware will sleep for a while and do nothing for days, weeks or months, to obfuscate where it came from and what caused it. Once you've downloaded two or more things that aren't trustworthy, you'll have no idea where the problem really originated. Could be the first one, could be the second one, could be the first one waiting until the second one can take the blame.
ps: something showing up as 'clean' on virustotal is never a guarantee, it's just an indicator. Just because it doesn't get detected doesn't mean there's nothing there, it just means that the malware scanners couldn't find anything - yet. Malware keeps finding new ways to hide, and scanners keep catching up to it, it's a cat and mouse game and always has been.
Said mod would be at fault (Unless via the Steam Workshop, since i believe that stuff is scanned) If it's not part of the base install, it shouldn't redownload.
I don't know how RE4 works under the hood, but if your installed your mods via Nexus (Which shouldn't have viruses either, given they scan a lot of the mods hosted, and those that do slip through are taken down pretty quickly. Dodgy and/or stolen mods rarely last more than a day.) you shouldn't worry there either...
Every single one? That seems unlikely. One i can understand could slip through, but there are RE4 "trainer" mods (from a quick look) that have been up for years with many users.. If they had anything in them, said mod would have been taken down by the Nexus team a long time ago.
Seems odd that only you had that issue. If that's the one im looking at, it's got 100k downloads and Nexus themselves have also scanned the files. It's been hosted for 4 years.
As someone back in 2022 said, their's was flagged as a virus, but it's a false positive due to how trainers work.
These things inject code into a running process (Just as a virus can) which is why it's flagged.
Honestly, i wouldn't use these kinds of mods, but getting it from Nexus is the safest place your going to find it due to the check they do on said mods. If your getting stuff from a google drive, then yeah, you run that risk, but not truly with Nexus. It's possible, but the % is so low on the mod that's been up *4 years.*
This is the issue though. If it had a trojan, and it actually destroyed your OS, then something was very bad. I don't think it was Razorrr's mod that was at fault, nor was it the Steam install you had, so, i'd start by looking at everything you did around that time. Sites you visited, even if it was just one covered in intrusive adverts (like social media) as all of those could have been the attack vector.
Did you know they can hide malware in images? The code is split and spread through the image file, and it's loaded as the image is loaded.
Just one of the many ways they hide viruses and malware like Cray said in the post above.
Even MS gave out a Pseudo virus not long ago, when an update caused some PC's to go into an endless restart loop. It might not have been intended, but the effect was there all the same....
Something else was wrong here, and im sure it's not Steam or that Razor mod at fault...
(edit because Steam broke the post....)