Malwarebytes Alert

[leobando]

Hi,

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question and apologize in advance if I am wrong.

I got this notification from a laptop out our site and it has Malwarebytes 1.75.0.1300 installed, the maessage is the following:

Malwarebytes Management Server Notification

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Alert Time: 8/22/2017 8:13:15 AM

Server Hostname: ServerName

Server Domain/Workgroup: DomainName Server IP: 172.16.x.xxx Notification Catalog: Client

Description:

Malware threat detected, see details below:

8/13/2017 12:14:21 PM ComputerName             192.168.1.12       Blocked web site              Type: outgoing, Port: 52034, Process: skype.exe           217.23.187.42

8/13/2017 12:14:21 PM ComputerName             192.168.1.12       Blocked web site              Type: outgoing, Port: 29329, Process: skype.exe           217.23.187.42

Total count: 2.

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Comment: This email was generated by Malwarebytes Management Server. Please do not reply to this message.

 

How concern should I be about this message? Is it a regular Skype communication or something else? The IP address is pointing to Russia.

Thank you for your help

 

[Porthos]

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Business will alert users when network traffic is blocked from an IP address that has been found to host malicious content. Since the network traffic is blocked, the malicious IP address is unable to connect to your computer - In most cases nothing needs be done, our protection has blocked the threat from infecting you.

Users who run peer-to-peer (P2P) programs (including Skype) will see these alerts frequently, due to the nature of using random peer-to-peer connections.

 

[leobando]

Make sense although I thought Skype ditched the peer-to-peer system.

Thank you