Underdog

Thank you for the explanation. I've been in contact with PIA and I opened a ticket on PIA and I just sent the a follow-up email with more details. Sorry if I hijacked the thread. It looks like they were unaware of the problem but I'm spelling it out for them now. :) ipqualityscore.com for instance has this IP flagged as suspicious. What bothers me is that I had pia-service.exe running but it was not attached to anything. So, why is my PC trying to open up an Apache connection on there? This was an outbound connection.

I have contacted Private Internet Access and submitted a ticket about this. In the meantime, I thought that since this appears to be a consolidation of messages about Private Internet Access I should post here with the information I have.

I am seeing errors from Malwarebytes that PIA is riskware. I have been using them for more than a year now. Is this a problem with their services or is it a false positive? Here is the message I am seeing. When I look up that address on ipqualityscore.com, I see that it's a location in the UK. My VPN is currently TURNED OFF. I can't explain why it would be connecting to someplace in the UK as I don't use that location in any case.

I am seeing this message too. Are you saying that Private Internet Access is malware? I don't know what "it servers as C2" means. I have the program "pia-service.exe" running but I am not connected to any VPN right now so this is a concern. Why is it connecting to a "C2" whatever that is?