What is hwcdn.net? Saw it on Network Shield

[leftisthominid]

I was in the process of closing Skyrim and I noticed on my Network Shield (open on my second monitor) a blue benign spike for hwcdn.net. I never ever saw anything from this site before. I was wondering if I should be concerned?

[MAG]

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=hwcdn.net/

[mchain]

hi leftisthominid,

hwcdn.net appears to not resolve to an active site and shows a suspicious file download "Uploader_setup.exe" scanned as of 01/09/2013.

Links follow:
http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/c2c6a3da0f066ea42154ee5866833074-1374995484
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=4130726
http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/d3d1e02c3a55911850240233bbf55fd5-1374995632
Sururi unable to scan site:  http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/hwcdn.net  (Under Website Details tab)
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/downloads/hwcdn.net/summary/

Any changes to your system?

[MAG]

Virustotal
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/6317a0a2ff291a8f50f1fd13fa3fc7e43ce0fb5fa82012e1e9f201476d190cde/analysis/1375000970/

[DavidR]

I was in the process of closing Skyrim and I noticed on my Network Shield (open on my second monitor) a blue benign spike for hwcdn.net. I never ever saw anything from this site before. I was wondering if I should be concerned?

Sites that you visit and also links to 3rd party sites, the Network Shield checks the site against its malicious sites list to ensure that they aren't malicious. The only ones that would concern you are if avast alerts, otherwise this is showing that the site isn't on its malicious sites list.

Don't forget the web shield is also active looking for malicious content, not just is a site is on the network shield malicious sites list.