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[foxflyer]

I keep getting this popup warning from MWB -

Successfully blocked acess to a potentially malicious website: 195.16.88.68
Type: outgoing
Port: varies, Process: updater.exe

I have no idea what this is coming from, but it comes up every couple minutes and has been for the last couple days. I've searched for updater.exe on my harddrive, and have found 7 programs with that name

chrome_updater
updater (DiskManager)
updater (Skype)
updater (WildTangent Games), occurs twice in different locations
Adobe AIR Updater
Norton_PC_Checkup_Updater

I've checked my processes and don't have a process running called updater.exe

If anyone can tell me what this is and if I should trust it, that would be great. I'm including a log file for today, ending at around 1408

[attachment=77181:protection-log-2012-04-12.txt]

Thank you for any help possible

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