Svchost.exe was blocked by Malwarebytes

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fasihxkhatib

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I recently installed malwarebytes anti-malware and it runs in background.
Today it popped a balloon showing that it successfully blocked a connection to a potentially harmful site. Type: incoming and Process: svchost.exe
Now, that is a system process.
How can that connect to a potentially harmful site???
 
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MB is little paranoid, about blocked websites. U can use Process Explorer to identify the process. It is safe process required to run.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_process_explorer/

nikorr

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MB is little paranoid, about blocked websites. U can use Process Explorer to identify the process. It is safe process required to run.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_process_explorer/
 
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nikorr

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Yeah, it is doing all day every day : ) Some websites get on the list of 'not good' sites.

It showed me once yahoo/sport/nhl.com as one of them : )

I use it as a scanner, it is not running all the time.
 
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