> 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.
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