erniemink Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 I need to report something that BitTorrent may be doing that can be dangerous. Consistently during the running of BitTorrent, my anti-malware program Malwarebytes is popping up a message that says it is blocking a malicious malware website. The Domain is listed as: IP: 89.28.122.78, Port 54076, Type: Inbound, Process: C:\Users\erniejm\AppData\Roaming\BitTorrent\BitTorrent.exe. Since peer to peer software can be the cause of malware and virus problems, this program is doing it's job, and I need to know how to rectify this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 Sounds like malwarebytes is being overparanoid actually. Blocking simply based on IP address is not a good manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmike52 Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 My Malware Bytes is also blocking multiple Inbound and (mostly) Outbound web addresses. It is very annoying but I am unsure weather to allow these websites. Can anyone explain exactly what Bit Torrent is trying to do here, calling up all these different web addresses??The requests always comes from: Users/myname/appdata/roaming/bittorrent/bittorrent.exe. Are These dangerous ?? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Doubtful. There's not enough information, except that they're employing a bluetack-style blocklist (which is known to be innacurate at best and user-hostile at worst) without actually looking at the traffic going over the connection. Similar to ZoneAlarm claiming e-mail being sent simply because port 25 was being used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmike52 Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 OK. I am going to do a Full Disk backup (clone) then start putting all the Bit Torrent blocked sites in the "allow" list and see what happens. What's the worst that could happen ? (Famous Last Words !! ) Will get back to this thread in a week or so with results. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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