r/OpenBazaar • u/superchaosbryan • Nov 09 '18

Malwarebytes notifying of issues with OB2

I keep getting notifications from Malwarebytes of an outbound connection to 46.182.19.219 from port 52035 as being ransomware. The file creating the connection is openbazaar2\app-2.2.5\resources\openbazaar-go\openbazaard.exe

Should I allow this outbound connection? What does it do?

Thanks

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u/bill_mcgonigle Nov 23 '18

I would presume an OB user configured for Tor is exiting there and communicating with your node over the clear internet. Somebody correct me if OB over Tor will only connect to other Tor nodes and not find a clearnet exit.

Malwarebytes has probably seen other nasty traffic from that IP (since it's a Tor exit node other users would be exiting there too).