Full version installed - OUTGOING connections blocked for no apparent reason

[mlapl1]

After installing the full version of Malwarebytes, I have suddenly been receiving messages that a connection to a potentially malicious site has been blocked. However, it appears that connection is being attempted FROM my computer as the blocked attempt is OUTGOING. Attempted connection appears to be to a variety of sites.

I have run full scans of malwarebytes and also AVAST virus checker. Both report absolutely nothing. Everything is up to date.

I have NO idea what could be sending out requests to connect. Obviously, I want to avoid any problems from any infections etc in my computer, but there appear to be no infections.

I notice that a lot of people are reporting the same thing but no answers seem to have been found as far as I can see. Could someone from malwarebytes comment on this problem please? Otherwise, it seems that we are all going round in circles.

Thank you so much for your help

Andrew

[1PW]

Hello mlapl1:

Until a more competent authority answers your post, you may wish to extract the IP addresses, from your logs, and put them in a reply.

Some MBAM PRO users, who have reported outgoing IP blocks, later reported that they had active file sharing applications (Torrent), Skype, etc. running.

HTH

[Firefox]

Hello and :welcome;

As stated above, do you have any P2P (file sharing applications), like utorrent, bit-torrent, frostwire, or the like running. Also it has been shown that Skype may cause some of these as well.

If you want to make sure that you are not indeed infected you can follow the instructions below:

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[mlapl1]

Thanks to both of you very much. I do not have P2P software running but do have skype. I will follow instructions - but will wait for support to answer as I wrote to them after writing this message (for some reason I did not identify the availability of support until after I had posted here). My mistake.

All the best

Andrew

[Firefox]

No problem, in the meantime while you are waiting for a reply, you can try and turn off or disable Skpe and see if the problem still happens.