Why are blocked sites displayed in numbers? not www.useful.com

[runifmissed]

Why are blocked sites displayed in binary?

11.111.333.44444 not www.useful.com

It seems ridiculous that this system is still used?

can we have english FFS

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I've took the liberty of translating this EXACT message to binary just in case that's your thing

really i have using an online binary translator.

http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/

Binary

01010111 01101000 01111001 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100010 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110011 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01101100 01100001 01111001 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00111111 00100000 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 00110001 00110001 00101110 00110001 00110001 00110001 00101110 00110011 00110011 00110011 00101110 00110100 00110100 00110100 00110100 00110100 00100000 00100000 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01110111 01110111 01110111 00101110 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 00101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 01011011 01101001 01101101 01100111 01011101 01101000 01110100 01110100 01110000 00111010 00101111 00101111 01101001 01101101 01100111 00110100 00110000 00110010 00101110 01101001 01101101 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110011 01101000 01100001 01100011 01101011 00101110 01110101 01110011 00101111 01101001 01101101 01100111 00110100 00110000 00110010 00101111 00110100 00110110 00111001 00110000 00101111 01110011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110100 00110101 00110110 00110000 01101101 00101110 01101010 01110000 01100111 01011011 00101111 01101001 01101101 01100111 01011101 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 01001001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101101 01110011 00100000 01110010 01101001 01100100 01101001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01101111 01110101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100100 00111111 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01000110 01000110 01010011

[ ASCII DEC / CHAR ]

87 104 121 32 97 114 101 32 98 108 111 99 107 101 100 32 115 105 116 101 32 100 105 115 112 108 97 121 101 100 32 105 110 32 98 105 110 97 114 121 63 32 13 10 13 10 49 49 46 49 49 49 46 51 51 51 46 52 52 52 52 52 32 32 32 110 111 116 32 119 119 119 46 117 115 101 102 117 108 46 99 111 109 13 10 13 10 13 10 91 105 109 103 93 104 116 116 112 58 47 47 105 109 103 52 48 50 46 105 109 97 103 101 115 104 97 99 107 46 117 115 47 105 109 103 52 48 50 47 52 54 57 48 47 115 99 114 101 101 110 115 104 111 116 53 54 48 109 46 106 112 103 91 47 105 109 103 93 13 10 13 10 73 116 32 115 101 101 109 115 32 114 105 100 105 99 117 108 111 117 115 32 116 104 97 116 32 116 104 105 115 32 115 121 115 116 101 109 32 105 115 32 115 116 105 108 108 32 117 115 101 100 63 13 10 13 10 99 97 110 32 119 101 32 104 97 118 101 32 101 110 103 108 105 115 104 32 70 70 83

[exile360]

The website blocking mechanism blocks IP addresses, not domain names (URL's), that's why you're seeing a string of numbers. Those numbers are the IP address of the site that was blocked. We do this for several reasons, but primarily because malicious websites will frequently change/randomize their domain names, meaning if we used www.badsite.com to block that website, they might start using www.badsite1.com, www.badsite2.com etc. to get around the block, even though all of those websites reside on the same IP address.

[Porthos]

read more here

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=10138&view=findpost&p=162100

[DarkSnakeKobra]

Why are blocked sites displayed in binary?

11.111.333.44444 not www.useful.com

Binary is only composed of ones and zeros. All computers including modern ones use binary and all they can really understand. Think of it as a switch method. The computer only lets a certain amount of power(1) in then stops(0). It does this in a series. Other parts of the computer then interpret the series of ones and zeros. This is how your regular computer use is done. Every task the computer does eventually breaks down into binary and series of groups for example one task may be

010101 01010100 01010101000

another task may be

00000 111111 01010000 11111

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_code

[runifmissed]

The website blocking mechanism blocks IP addresses, not domain names (URL's), that's why you're seeing a string of numbers. Those numbers are the IP address of the site that was blocked. We do this for several reasons, but primarily because malicious websites will frequently change/randomize their domain names, meaning if we used www.badsite.com to block that website, they might start using www.badsite1.com, www.badsite2.com etc. to get around the block, even though all of those websites reside on the same IP address.

i had an idea

What about

have the binary but next to it have.......

5.6.56.56.56 (the-website-name.com)

that way everyone happy

machines and humans

Its a feature request

[exile360]

The other issue with that is that there isn't always a domain name being blocked. Many of the IP's that we block are servers for botnets, which have no domain names/URL's, only IP addresses, and listing a complete list of URL's on a single IP address that are malicious would also be out of the question, as more often than not, there are many. We also block some entire IP ranges, which can contain many many domain names.

[runifmissed]

The other issue with that is that there isn't always a domain name being blocked. Many of the IP's that we block are servers for botnets, which have no domain names/URL's, only IP addresses, and listing a complete list of URL's on a single IP address that are malicious would also be out of the question, as more often than not, there are many. We also block some entire IP ranges, which can contain many many domain names.

just displaying one domain name would help

i never know whether to unblock the domain number...or if it is a bad site how to reblock it..... i tend to remember 'words' rather than 'numbers' ..

having a name to understand would really help

[runifmissed]

11.111.333.44444 (not www.useful.com)

instead of

[exile360]

just displaying one domain name would help

i never know whether to unblock the domain number...or if it is a bad site how to reblock it..... i tend to remember 'words' rather than 'numbers' ..

having a name to understand would really help

Again, there is no way for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to know precisely what domain name you're trying to access. It could be 'www.safe-site-on-a-bad-IP.com' or it could be 'www.really-bad-website.com' if they share the same IP address. Some IP's are blocked (as I said previously) because they're hosts to botnets and other malicious content and they don't even use any domain names, so there would literally be nothing that could be displayed except an IP address.

To be clear, this is not a browser plugin that tracks the exact URL/domain name that you're trying to access. It is a web filter that can only currently block IP addresses and IP ranges. That being said, if you want info on a specific IP, you may do a search for it here, as many (though not all) of the IP's that we block will have info on that website. So for the example above, to find out about '61.139.126.254' you'd search that page and find this.