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Is it safe to install third party scenery software on your computer?


MikeN87

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I would love to have better scenery when I fly X-Plane on my computer, but I'm nervous about getting a virus or getting hacked after downloading scenery software. So my question is, is it safe to install third party scenery software on your computer?

 

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Mike

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I am not aware that anyone has ever suffered a virus attack from using third party scenery software. Given the format of XP scenery files, such an occurence seems very unlikely to me.

 

As a general rule, always download from a respectable site such as flightsim.com. Files are scanned before being allowed into the library, and of course, you should also rely on your own virus scanner at all times.

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As RatRace said, if you get it from a good source, and others have used it before, and it doesn't come with an installer or executable *.exe file, and it clears a virus scan, you should be fine.

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