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[krisleonardisok]

My Malwarebytes has been blocking many attempts to access harmful websites for incoming requests via svchost.exe. Here's an example from the log file:


2012/04/14 00:21:00 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 218.10.105.214 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:21:00 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 218.10.105.214 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:26:55 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:27:52 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:33:55 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:34:03 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.79.51 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:34:51 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:40:55 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:41:51 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:46:50 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.52.214 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:46:58 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:47:54 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:53:17 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 141.101.124.54 (Type: outgoing, Port: 50129, Process: chrome.exe)
2012/04/14 00:53:58 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 00:54:54 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:00:58 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:01:54 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:07:57 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:08:54 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:14:57 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:15:53 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:21:00 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:21:57 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:22:53 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:28:00 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:28:57 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:34:52 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)
2012/04/14 01:35:56 -0700 OWNER-PC Owner IP-BLOCK 89.28.51.71 (Type: incoming, Port: 53873, Process: svchost.exe)

(the one outgoing listed above was I believe from an add on some website or something. All of the incoming requests are the more curious requests)

I am guessing that this is a good thing and I am just being spammed by IP address 89.28.51.71. However, I wanted to check here and make sure. A scan with Malwarebytes turns up nothing and so does a scan with tdskiller. Also I am not seeing any spikes in memory or CPU usage. I believe I am ok but just to be safe I figured I should ask the forum and see what the admins think. It's also strange to me that incoming requests are coming from svchost.exe.

Thanks for any help and information!

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