Potential dangers of emulators? (lemmy.world)

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Hypotheticaly if instead of searching for my old Ps2/Xbox360 discs i downloaded a rom could the emulated games infect my computer once ran? (if this breakes the rules im sory)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Practically, yes. There was a zsnes exploit that did exactly this back in the day.

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