Gaming Are some old filetrip GBA homebrews infected with malware?

[romanaOne]

I was looking for a few good old games and Firefox gives a malware warning for Pocket Raider 2 zip file.

https://gbatemp.net/download/pocket-raider-2.9254/download?version=9254

Can someone look into this?

I downloaded and unzipped the file in a (disposable) VirtualBox VM and it seems normal enough. The ROM runs in an emulator as expected.

I tried downloading AGBRogue and got the same error, so it is not just this one file.

 

[Ryccardo]

What malware do you expect, for a system with no permanent storage at all (so with the possibilities for mischief being limited to erasing saves on the card you may hotswap to, or damaging the screen)?

VirusTotal, in fact, comes out with an unanimous "clean" rating, which is already surprising (heuristic detection, often labeled as "general" or "gen", not rarely gets false positives, not to mention certain bribes some companies seem to have received against clean cracks/keygens)

That leaves the questionable "safe browsing" feature of your browser, which operates on a simple 3rd party blacklist you (or the site owners) don't have much control on
(you can find plenty of complaints by searching online "this site can harm your computer")

 

[romanaOne]

I mean it can harm the PC you use to unzip the file. Of course the GBA can't be harmed.

I'm using Firefox. I hear you about the FUD issue.

 

[Ryccardo]

I mean it can harm the PC you use to unzip the file

That would be unlikely, unless a known exploit (or "exploit") exists in the extraction software you use (as most recently was discovered in the most widely used .ace library)