The__Q Posted November 1, 2021 ID:1486575 Share Posted November 1, 2021 I have no idea why, but sometimes when visiting a page (youtube, twitter, the malwarebytes forum, tenforums.com, a few other places I can't recall) I get a popup from malwarebytes that says that an outbound connection has been blocked to techloris.com. I ran hitmanpro, malwarebytes, and malwarebytes adwcleaner and none of them found anything. I also have the malwarebytes browser guard and an adblocker installed (ad nauseam). Is this a false positive? Why does my computer keep making outbound connections to this website? I have a lot more logs I can send if it will help. Techloris log.txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted November 1, 2021 Root Admin ID:1486576 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Hello @The__Q More than likely you probably have a search engine or other entry buried in Microsoft Edge that has that entry. Please review your settings to see if you can find and remove it. Try another browser and the issue probably goes away, thus confirming a bad entry in MS Edge. Let us know if you're unable to find and remove and we can do some scans of the system. Thank you 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution The__Q Posted November 1, 2021 Author Solution ID:1486578 Share Posted November 1, 2021 I think I figured it out, AdNauseum has a feature where it clicks on ads (without you actually seeing or loading the ad) and for some reason due to the ad being blocked by malwarebytes it kept trying to refresh the ad to get a thumbnail to show me what it blocked or something like that. No new ads were added to it's "vault" in between the individual malwarebytes messages so I'm gonna assume something like that was happening. (I did remove all of the search engines and got a popup from malwarebytes after I started edge again) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted November 2, 2021 Root Admin ID:1486587 Share Posted November 2, 2021 So are things okay now or do you still need assistance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The__Q Posted November 3, 2021 Author ID:1486750 Share Posted November 3, 2021 All is good, that seemed to be the problem, haven't gotten any more messages about it. thank you! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted November 3, 2021 Root Admin ID:1486789 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Excellent. Glad to hear that's all it was and all is well again. Take care and stay safe out there Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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