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@Shy I'm sure you did, but, did you put in exclusions and everything?

Excellent! I'm glad that that resolved this for you You're welcome

I want to get a beta sometime. Unfortunately I don't really have anywhere to put one at the moment

@Diana80 Maybe a silly question, but have you updated Malwarebytes to its most current definitions before trying WMP again?

Pretty fishy

Thank you Nosirrah for the information and letting us know what was going on

I was able to get onto my computer real quick tonight. AV just freshly updated prior to checking this, Mbam fully up to date prior to checking this. I just opened WMP. I got an IP block to this IP: I'm running XP. Again, I KNOW that my machine is not infected, so that is not a factor in the IP block for me. VM player Version 11. Fully updated as far as I know. When I click check for updates, it tells me that setup is already running?? Which is weird... Actually, two minutes later, I checked, and it told me that WMP is fully up to date, and that no updates are available at this time. So WMP is fully up to date. I don't have time to check this out any further tonight, but just wanted to report back here

Garybear, You're welcome It is great to know that Mbam blocks both ways, I agree Basically with incoming, the IP's that are blocked are malicious IP addresses that would otherwise most likely infect your computer. (Either something malicious from the IP or website itself or from an advertisement that is on a malicious IP address/range that is malcious itself, even if the rest of the website is fine). Please check out this link for information on the IP Protection Module : http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?s...mp;#entry162100 I am not sure of all the answers to your questions; though. I'm sure someone will be able to jump in here and explain better than I.

I agree, the IP blocker should NOT be turned off, it most certainly should be left on.

Hey Garybear, I am not on staff or anything like that so I can't speak for Malwarebytes staff, admins, or moderators, but my guess is that they probably don't know at this time if it is coming in or out. MY GUESS (and this is ONLY a guess and MY OPINION ONLY) is that it's incoming, so probably nothing to be worried about. I'm sure that someone will be looking into this soon. I am going to test this out on my system and see what happens for me as soon as I have a chance. I doubt that that'll be tonight, though. If you are NOT connected to the internet, nothing can "call in" or "call out", so to speak. If you try to update Malwarebytes or your antivirus, for example, when you are not connected to the internet, it will not work. If you have a data-stealing Trojan on your machine, for example, you will be advised to immediately disconnect from the internet. This is because when you are NOT connected to the internet, nothing can "call home" to your machine. You'll be happy to know that Malwarebytes blocks both incoming and outgoing IP addresses

No problem, Garybear It is helpful to know why you are editing (unless it's just for spelling errors) so that people know what/why you added something.

Garybear, You wouldn't get an IP block when not connected to the internet; nothing can go in or out when you are NOT connected to the internet.

Amethyst, thanks for the info Anything anyone can provide will be helpful here (not just for me, mostly for staff and anyone else looking into this situation as well) I hardly ever use WMP either; I primarily use iTunes. I am going to try opening JUST WMP, then try opening a music video from a website that I trust, and try looking for radio stations and see what happens in those situations, as soon as I have a chance.

Thank you very much for that information, Diana08 and garybear. That's helpful for me and anyone else looking into this situation.

Just to see, I am going to open up WMP on my computer as soon as I have a chance and see if I get any IP blocks. I KNOW that I am not infected so I'm interested to see if this happens on my system. Can anyone please tell me when you got the IP block using Windows Media Player, did it happen when you had JUST opened the program, or were you doing something else, such as listening to music via a radio station, etc... (please be specific).

I'm not an admin or a mod but from my understanding, and reading around the board from mods and admins, YES that is the reason for the 50 post count limit until you get the edit button. I always write Edit: with the new info when I am editing a post, unless its just for spelling. If its more than like 10 minutes later, I'll usually make a new post if I am not sure if the person I am replying to has already read it, so that they get all of the info I meant to give.

There is no actual Malwarebytes portable made by Malwarebytes at this time. Usage is completely at your own risk, and is not supported by Malwarebytes.

Me three!

I might be going out a huge limb here, but, check your KIS logs and see if Mbam may have accidentally been deleted during a scan? (Which I highly, highly doubt, but is possible). Unless you do manual scans, then that wouldn't be the case. Other than that, I am not sure

awwww lol

Yay fishies! I hope you studied too

Sorry for any misunderstandings, noknojon.

Mona,

awwww goldhound, what an adorable picture

Makes sense to me, and I agree.