AVAST detecting svchost.exe and blocking it multiple times

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi, I am using a brand new MSI GE702PE Apache Pro laptop, which I use for work primarily, and the laptop is just over 2 months old. However, no dodgy websites get visited or suspect flash drives get installed on this machine if I can help it.

All of a sudden, after my computer had been sitting idle and checking for Windows Updates (Windows 8.1 Single Langauge 64bit), I started getting multiple alerts / pop-ups notifying that “svchost.exe” has been blocked by AVAST.

I’ve had 12 alert pop-ups in the space of about 5 minutes, after I had switched off my machine to finalise the Windows Updates process.

The alerts still popped up after I restarted the machine, but have since quietened down.

I’ve attached a screenshot of one of the many pop-ups, that I enlarged to view.

Any idea if this is a false positive, or if I have anything else to worry about?

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I don’t know if it’s a false positive, but it is also happening to me (slightly different URL) on Windows 7 x64.
This is when clicking to see what ‘important updates’ are available.

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Same here.Windows Defender update - false positive.

http://oi62.tinypic.com/e6rmh3.jpg

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For what it’s worth, the full report for me was :

“13/02/2015 08:31:18 http://ic.d48b71d8.0a7048.1.msftsrvcs.vo.llnwi.net/c/msdownload/update/software/defu/2015/02/mpas-d_bd_1.191.4500.0_1421f6758ae7c0df89b1cc047f160d17819009a6.exe [L] URL:Mal (0)”

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Hello, sorry for your trouble. Url will be no longer blocked.

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Update went ahead OK now, thanks.