Malwarebytes blocks outbound website call

[Terrax]

Hello, so I'm receiving close to a hundred (100) of the messages attached in the screenshot.

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The IP and port number are different. Could someone please explain is this behavior expected and what website is qbittorrent trying to reach?

[Zoloft]

Someone, who's ip address is flagged as malware by malwarebytes is trying to connect to you to get a torrent you are seeding.

[Jendrej]

I installed MB recently to try it out and got those too. It's just blocking IPs of peers that have been blacklisted (probably for something else than torrenting - a lot of people use shared VPNs or shared servers).

I just disabled the web protection feature. Even for normal browsing, I find it those more annoying than useful. They block "suspicious things" that may or may not be malware - basically all false positives

[TPISNOTWHOIAM]

I have the same issue though I am not seeding nor have any files downloaded. I constantly get the alerts for awhile even though I have exited qBittorrent and there are no instances of it running according to Task Manager.

[Peter]

I have the same issue though I am not seeding nor have any files downloaded. I constantly get the alerts for awhile even though I have exited qBittorrent and there are no instances of it running according to Task Manager.

It could be also just alerting to a tracker, DHT, etc. These anti-virus products are 99% snakeoil, scare tactics and straight up scam in 2024. They had to change their legit business model into shady after Microsoft introduced a perfectly working antivirus with Defender.