{"id":4663,"date":"2012-08-11T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2012-08-11T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T19:13:40","slug":"stop-malwarebytes-from-showing-pop-ups-for-blocked-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/stop-malwarebytes-from-showing-pop-ups-for-blocked-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Malwarebytes from showing pop-ups for blocked sites."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gerald gets an annoying popup from Malwarebytes about a blocked Web site.
\n<\/strong>Hello……can you please assist me. Not the end of the earth, but yet totally annoying.<\/p>\n

Each time I log into Google Chrome I receive a pop up telling me that Malwarebytes has blocked a potential threat….207 232 22 60. This appears to come from Elron Technologies based in Hebron, Israel.<\/p>\n

As I have said it is annoying, as I use Google Chrome as my search provider throughout the day. I cannot find a way to make Malwarebytes ignore this because I have added Google to their ignore list, but still the pop up arrives……Is their any other way to stop this without interfering with the registry as I do not feel informative enough to be able to tamper with registry.?<\/p>\n

Since you fixed my computer online some couple of months back, all has been running fine. Thanks again. Gerald<\/p>\n

Our answer
\n<\/strong>There are two “Elron Technologies” — one is a venture capital firm located in Israel and the other is a Web hosting company in Israel. In your case it is most likely the latter that Malwarebytes is blocking — and you’re probably getting it because you have installed something on your computer from one of the sites that Elron hosts….<\/p>\n

Bearshare
\niMesh
\nilivid
\nftalk (Facebook chat)
\njzip (free unzip tool)<\/p>\n

What does this notification mean? This notification means nothing more than an IP address has been blocked. It does NOT mean you are infected, it means a program on your computer, for example a browser add-on, an instant messenger program, or one of the program’s listed above tried accessing a malicious IP address.<\/p>\n

You probably should shut not off Malwarebytes Website blocking — although we’re incredulous about such things, since we don’t know how Malwarebytes decides which sites get blocked and which don’t. Hopefully they don’t rely on a forum-based method such as WOT does. For now, we’d suggest you leave Malwarebytes website blocking feature enabled and just disable the popup notifications — which is what is really annoying you. That way the communication between whatever is installed on your computer and Elron Technologies is being blocked — but you’re not getting annoying popups every time it’s blocked.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to disable the popups without disabling website blocking:<\/p>\n

1. Open Malwarebytes
\n2. Click on the Protection tab
\n3. Uncheck the last item — “Show tooltip balloon when malicious website is blocked”
\n4. Click the exit button rather than the X at the top right to close the window.<\/p>\n

We hope this helps you, Gerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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