Ascendents Posted March 28, 2013 ID:661766 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Hey everyone i have been using the malwarebytes 14 day trial and on the 2nd day it blocked an ip from skype.exe should this be of concern?protection-log-2013-03-27.txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted March 28, 2013 ID:661768 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Hi, again: Nope, not necessarily a bad thing.This explains why MBAM blocks Skype & how to safely deal with it: Why does Malwarebytes Anti-Malware block Skype?HTH,daledoc1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascendents Posted March 28, 2013 Author ID:661779 Share Posted March 28, 2013 ok so i understand why it blocked it now lets say i didn't have malwarebytes protection at the time that happened would anything bad of happened? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 28, 2013 ID:661811 Share Posted March 28, 2013 ok so i understand why it blocked it now lets say i didn't have malwarebytes protection at the time that happened would anything bad of happened?No, most likely not as connecting to these IPs was simply the result of the fact that Skype is a form of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software meaning it uses IP addresses from all over the world, including other Skype users, so it just happened in this case that one of the IPs it connected to was also on our IP block list for having done something malicious such as hosting malware, however it is most unlikely that simply connecting to that IP with Skype would have resulted in any problems or infection. Had it been your internet browser however, that would be a very different story. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascendents Posted March 28, 2013 Author ID:661813 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Alright thanks good to know nothing bad was happening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascendents Posted March 28, 2013 Author ID:661923 Share Posted March 28, 2013 couple more ips got blocked from skype assuming was on the ip block list but here is the log if want to checkprotection-log-2013-03-28.txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 28, 2013 ID:661925 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Yep, the same explanation applies, so no worries . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascendents Posted March 28, 2013 Author ID:661934 Share Posted March 28, 2013 is there anyway for me to see the IPs on the blocklist so i can just check them or no? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted March 28, 2013 ID:661951 Share Posted March 28, 2013 is there anyway for me to see the IPs on the blocklist so i can just check them or no?Unfortunately not, however, if you wish to look up an IP or URL you may access hpHosts Online. It is the online database of websites/IPs maintained by our own malicious website research team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivealive Posted March 28, 2013 ID:661998 Share Posted March 28, 2013 keep in mind Skype has ads as well, so the blocks could be from those. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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