What Are These Pop-Ups?

[Tywais]

Some info on 111.111.111.111 - http://oxhat.blogspot.com/2013/06/tracking-down-culprit-pandoraserviceexe.html

[jbrain]

I still have the IE problem on both laptops, Post #8.

Since using Malwarebytes on the Win 8 laptop I am now getting a pop-up every two minutes saying:

"Successfully blocked access to a potentially malicious website 111.111.111.111."

I am not getting the pop-up on my Win 7 laptop.

I have read M'bytes forum and it says uninstall KMPlayer which I have done, and restarted, still no change.

Are you downloading torrents by any chance or have a torrent program active ?

While downloading torrents you get that message all the time.

By the way did you perform a full scan with malwarebytes as opposed to a quick scan ?

No, not downloading torrents, no program that I can see.

Yes, I did a full scan, using Spybot and Malwarebyte.

Just read on another forum where the "Successfully blocked access to a potentially malicious website 111.111.111.111" pop-up can be caused by Skype or a P2P client running.

I do have both on both laptops.

Strangely, Windows 8 laptop has the pop-up, Windows 7 laptop does not.

Might have to just live with it.

A p2p client is what I called a torrent program, should have been more correct in my description

Might be that Windows 8 has a built in security that blocks the site already, before Malwarebytes can detect it.

[Chicog]

OK some KMPlayer isn't to be trusted.

If you are using torrents, I'd recommend installing PeerBlock

[UbonOz]

Sent an email to Qualys earlier this evening regarding my Post #8, they have replied already, see below.

Please click on the IE item in the BrowserCheck results to see details regarding security issue with IE. There is a work-around fix, but a permanent fix will be available from Microsoft soon (probably on

Oct 8th

).

[Chicog]

Wow that's pretty good for a free service.

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[andreitt]

If any of the suggested fixes did not work or your PC is actually clean from malware, then you might be suffering from DNS Hijacking. I had the same symptoms on all my devices: smartphone, iPad, and laptop, but when I used a VPN, the problems went away. I used http://www.vpngate.net/en/.