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Offline Sin Shadow Fox

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Avast warning history?
« on: July 13, 2021, 06:59:45 AM »
I've been getting multiple warnings about this IP from avast "172.86.180.122:26678" so i found the app its using to get into my PC and banned it but i closed the warning before i decided to report the IP online at https://www.abuseipdb.com and the website is asking what kind of "thing" was it trying to do. So now i need to remember what avast called the "thing" it was infected with. I think it was called something like botnet blacklist but my memory is atrocious and i don't trust it. So I'd like to check avast's records to find the exact name.
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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2021, 02:44:30 PM »
Hi,

Please have a look at the WebShield report log in C:\ProgramData\Avast Software\Avast\report

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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2021, 02:49:36 PM »
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* Avast Real-time Shield Scan Report
* This file is generated automatically
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* Started on: Thursday, July 08, 2021 6:22:41 AM
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* Shield stopped: Thursday, July 08, 2021 6:40:02 AM
* Run-time was 17 minute(s), 21 second(s)
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* Avast Real-time Shield Scan Report
* This file is generated automatically
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* Started on: Thursday, July 08, 2021 6:40:48 AM
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* Shield stopped: Thursday, July 08, 2021 7:00:45 AM
* Run-time was 19 minute(s), 57 second(s)
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* Avast Real-time Shield Scan Report
* This file is generated automatically
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* Started on: Thursday, July 08, 2021 7:01:35 AM
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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2021, 04:08:08 PM »
Is that all that's in the webshield.txt file, it seems very short  ?

The newest entries are appended to the bottom of the file.
Windows 10 Home 64bit/ Acer Aspire F15/ Intel Core i5 7200U 2.5GHz, 8GB DDR4 memory, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD/ avast! free 24.3.6108 (build 24.3.8975.762) UI 1.0.801/ Firefox, uBlock Origin, uMatrix/ MailWasher Pro/ Avast! Mobile Security

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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2021, 04:14:21 PM »
The file is huge. these are from the bottom. The last warning i got was from 7/12-today
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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2021, 07:07:25 PM »
Yes I know. but that entry isn't on your listing.
Windows 10 Home 64bit/ Acer Aspire F15/ Intel Core i5 7200U 2.5GHz, 8GB DDR4 memory, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD/ avast! free 24.3.6108 (build 24.3.8975.762) UI 1.0.801/ Firefox, uBlock Origin, uMatrix/ MailWasher Pro/ Avast! Mobile Security

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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2021, 07:12:49 PM »
I noticed that. In fact the last entry from all the reports seem to be from 7/8
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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2021, 09:36:41 PM »
That is definitely strange mind you if you haven't restarted the system since then, it shows when it was started and also stopped.

Since you haven't recorded a Stop since the last start on July 08, 2021, then effectively you haven't had any web shield alerts.
But I can't think what would have been alerting, taking a screenshot when alerts happen is the best route to gathering information.

I get several when testing in relation to forum topics.
See my attached image of the last entry in my webshield.txt file.

I tried to do a direct connect to that IP, but it failed to connect, but no errors on screen. 
Finally I got this -
The connection has timed out
The server at 172.86.180.122 is taking too long to respond.

I checked the IP here - https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/172.86.180.122 - This IP was reported 19 times. Confidence of Abuse is 11%:
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Also on - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/9a74c7b27069ad473b1591ac161e4f3a94f2f95cb2ac879b1398470d17047eab/detection - only two hits there

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Re: Avast warning history?
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2021, 09:40:56 PM »
Well i already banned the IP so i won't be getting another warning about it. And without knowing what it was trying to do i guess i won't be the 20th report on it.
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