Hey everyone, had an account here before but can seem to remember user name.
Anyway, twice today while surfing, my malwarebytes blocked outgoing calls from avast.exe. I dont have any more info right now, ill add to this post as i get it.
Hey everyone, had an account here before but can seem to remember user name.
Anyway, twice today while surfing, my malwarebytes blocked outgoing calls from avast.exe. I dont have any more info right now, ill add to this post as i get it.
Malwarebytes log
2012/06/22 00:56:41 -0400 CHRIS-PC Chris IP-BLOCK 222.186.49.240 (Type: outgoing, Port: 52921, Process: avastsvc.exe) (Type: outgoing, Port: 50079, Process: avastsvc.exe)
2012/06/22 21:34:32 -0400 CHRIS-PC Chris IP-BLOCK 94.100.23.90 (Type: outgoing, Port: 50103, Process: avastsvc.exe)
2012/06/23 10:30:16 -0400 CHRIS-PC Chris IP-BLOCK 89.248.174.55 (Type: outgoing, Port: 65136, Process: avastsvc.exe)
What you don’t understand is how avast in itself works to protect your system. There is nothing using avast.exe (aside from your post doesn’t even show avast.exe being used) the avastSvc.exe controls the avast scanners and in this case it is the Web Shield, localhost proxy through which http traffic is routed so that it can be scanned by the web shield.
So it is your browsing (via the web shield proxy) reaching out to an IP that MBAM considers malicious. This can be from links to content on another site that you happen to be browsing.
Okey-dokey hadn’t seen that before and thought it was strange
No problem.