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Ahhhh. I thought it was to prevent penetration attempts by bad actors. Thanks for explaining!

No, it doesn't.

This morning, I adjusted the advanced security settings in Malwarebytes to take full advantage of its protection. Unfortunately, this caused it to block a valid file in Microsoft Office. As a result, every time I opened a Word document, it force-closed the file. Here is one of the logs from this behavior: Malwarebytes www.malwarebytes.com -Log Details- Protection Event Date: 2/22/23 Protection Event Time: 4:15 PM Log File: b969b2b8-b306-11ed-929a-6c24087e0e58.json -Software Information- Version: 4.5.21.231 Components Version: 1.0.1890 Update Package Version: 1.0.66011 License: Premium -System Information- OS: Windows 11 (Build 22000.1574) CPU: x64 File System: NTFS User: System -Exploit Details- File: 0 (No malicious items detected) Exploit: 1 Exploit.PayloadProcessBlock, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16\ai.exe 148E169B-F376-445A-8CE7-C5FCC2FE4E89 77A2E1F6-ED05-4414-9532-100D0CECD0EF 13360, Blocked, 0, 392684, 0.0.0, , -Exploit Data- Affected Application: Microsoft Office Word Protection Layer: Application Behavior Protection Protection Technique: Exploit payload process blocked File Name: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16\ai.exe 148E169B-F376-445A-8CE7-C5FCC2FE4E89 77A2E1F6-ED05-4414-9532-100D0CECD0EF 13360 URL: (end) I had to set everything back to defaults (for now). Thanks in advance for your help.

Every so often, an MB warning will pop up that it blocked shaadlife.com for a phishing attempt through port 443. The weird thing is that I've never visited this site. So, what's trying to open it? I've attached my log for the most recent block. shaadlife.txt