wombat88

I am so glad to find this thread! I've been having tons of issues with Outlook 365 programs crashing and could not figure out what was causing it. I thought it was an add-in but disabling exploit protection for office programs in Malwarebytes fixed it for me. Office 365 was pretty much unusable until I did that due to constant crashes in Excel, Word, etc. I'd get a message about an exploit and Malwarebytes would immediately close the program, or I'd get odd behavior with no exploit message followed by a crash. I have checked the box to notify me of replies to this thread, but I hope Malwarebytes fixes this problem soon. I have the home edition version 3.1.2. One concern: In Settings > Protected Applications I found individual listings for Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Publisher. I did not see an entry for Microsoft Office or for Outlook. As Outlook as been one of my problem applications, I'd like to figure out how to turn off exploit protection for that too while waiting for a fix from Malwarebytes. Do you know how I do that? I did try adding a custom application to outlook.exe but want to be sure that is the way to do it. I've not had a crash yet in Outlook but would prefer not to have one at all as I am afraid they will eventually corrupt my profile. Thanks.

I use Avast for antivirus protection and it uses avastsvc.exe in the title to do updates, I think. I've set up a rule to ignore avastsvc.exe but MalwareBytes continues to block IP addresses used by Avast. I believe this is a false positive as I do not see any reason why these IPs would be blocked given the nature of the program (anti-virus). Here is a portion of my most recent log (replaced name with admin). MalwareBytes keeps blocking the same IP address, though the ports used change in each log file: 11:48:40 (admin) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60318, Process: avastsvc.exe) 11:48:40 (admin) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60319, Process: avastsvc.exe) 11:48:40 (admin) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60321, Process: avastsvc.exe) 11:48:40 (admin) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60322, Process: avastsvc.exe) On another day, the log file was even worse and several different IP addresses were involved: 00:37:47 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60111, Process: avastsvc.exe) 00:37:47 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60112, Process: avastsvc.exe) 01:10:00 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60673, Process: avastsvc.exe) 01:10:00 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60676, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:25 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59764, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:25 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59765, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:25 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59766, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:25 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59767, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59773, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59775, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59774, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59776, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59780, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59781, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59783, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59784, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:49 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59787, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:49 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59788, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:49 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59796, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:09:49 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59797, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:21 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59860, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:21 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59861, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:21 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59862, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:21 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59863, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:29 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59866, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:29 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59867, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:53 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59869, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:10:53 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59870, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:11:01 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59872, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:11:01 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59873, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:11:01 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59875, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:11:01 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59876, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:11:10 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59879, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:11:10 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59880, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:13:36 (ADMIN) MESSAGE IP Protection stopped 23:13:37 (ADMIN) MESSAGE IP Protection started successfully 23:13:52 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59952, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:13:52 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59953, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:13:52 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59954, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:13:52 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59955, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:00 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59957, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:00 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59958, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:00 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59960, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:00 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59961, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59967, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59968, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59969, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59970, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:16 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59974, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:16 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 89.111.176.226 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59975, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:14:36 (ADMIN) MESSAGE Added 89.111.176.226 to ignore list 23:14:52 (ADMIN) MESSAGE IP Protection stopped 23:14:52 (ADMIN) MESSAGE IP Protection started successfully 23:15:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60025, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:15:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60026, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:15:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60036, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:15:08 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60037, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:18:04 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60223, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:18:04 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60224, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:18:04 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60250, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:18:04 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60251, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:18:12 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60263, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:18:12 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60264, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:20:28 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60303, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:20:28 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60304, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:20:28 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60316, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:20:28 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 90.156.145.38 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60317, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:21:25 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.87.149.250 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60448, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:21:25 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.87.149.250 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60449, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:21:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.87.149.250 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60483, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:21:33 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.87.149.250 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60484, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:28:29 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60856, Process: avastsvc.exe) 23:28:29 (ADMIN) IP-BLOCK 208.73.210.29 (Type: outgoing, Port: 60857, Process: avastsvc.exe)