MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> I prefer getting my software directly from the authors and through their own
> authorized distribution sites without that shady layer of bureaucracy. Or even
> downloading the source and compiling the source straight from the source.
> I also don't like to download software from third parties. I always download it from
> the source when possible. But since some emulators use EmuCR to release it's SVN
> compiled builds, I am forced to use it. I'll give you two examples. The NES emulator
> "FCEUX" and the Atari 2600 emulator "Stella". Both emulators do not have their SVN
> compiled builds posted on their official sites. They don't compile them for the user.
> So unless you know how to compile (which I don't), then you have to download it from
> EmuCR. FCEUX hasn't had an official bumped version release since December 2010. But
> there have been literally hundreds of SVN compiled builds with all various updates
> that EmuCR has compiled and uploaded for FCEUX. (I don't know why FCEUX is waiting so
> long to bump the version number and release the next official version.)
>
> But anyways, yeah, so that's why I sometimes use EmuCR. So unless I learn how to
> compile SVN builds myself, I'm left with little choice but to have to use EmuCR.

I would advise everyone to stay as far away from EMUCR as you can. Even with protection firewall or some other anti-malware running - you know there are bad things going on there.

My experience is that any time I accessed the main drop site, change a page or even just 'sit there' with the page showing, I get every few seconds an attempt to entice my computer to send data.. causing Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to inform me via a pop-up of OUTGOING traffic from my machine to a suspicious IP. Below, for example:


20:18:23	Owner	IP-BLOCK	117.21.224.235 (Type: outgoing)
20:18:26	Owner	IP-BLOCK	117.21.224.235 (Type: outgoing)
20:18:26	Owner	IP-BLOCK	117.21.224.235 (Type: outgoing)
20:18:32	Owner	IP-BLOCK	117.21.224.235 (Type: outgoing)
20:18:32	Owner	IP-BLOCK	117.21.224.235 (Type: outgoing)
20:18:44	Owner	IP-BLOCK	117.21.224.235 (Type: outgoing)
20:18:47	Owner	IP-BLOCK	117.21.224.235 (Type: outgoing)

A little research shows this:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/117.21.224.235

So, now, except for this one test just now to get the logs, I avoid the site like a plague. What you want to do with your computer and your personal data is up to you OSG. At the very least use a web proxy to visit the site to safeguard yourself some, get the file share links they have set up for your emulators (they rarely host on-site) and visit them outside of the site.