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I'm fairly okay with PCs but when it comes to networking i'm quite lost with the details. My brother started up Mount and blade war band napleonic wars - an official game and played multi player and joined a server. All of a sudden malwarebytes starts blocking outbound connections to 176.53.17.226, on ports 49287, 63932, 65135, 57512, and 60600.

Is my pc in danger? Or is it a false positive? Please help. It showed mountblade warband_/mb_warband.exe being blocked

Ebenezar John Paul
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After a quick google search I found THIS and according to them it's fine. mb_warband.exe is known to be published by a legitimate company (Taleworlds Entertainment) so everything should be fine. If this was happening to me I'd treat it as a false positive.

JekwA
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  • I bought the game from Steam which is a legit company. So am I completely safe playing the game? – Keyes Jul 24 '14 at 17:52
  • As I posted in my answer, it appears to be safe and if it was happening on my machine I would treat it as a false positive. I can't guarantee anything, but again if it was my machine I would allow it. – JekwA Jul 24 '14 at 17:58
  • What would be indicators if it was malicious? Also, if I auninstall malwarebytes, I wont have to worry playing multi player again? None of this happened on singleplayer, only as soon as my brother went on a multi player game. – Keyes Jul 24 '14 at 18:01
  • Single player doesn't need to make lots of connections for data from other players etc. – Rory Alsop Jul 29 '14 at 09:38
  • As I understand it, MWB sees that data which appears unique (especially with an identifying pattern) is being sent externally, and it doesn't have the site in a whitelist of known-good IPs. Everything about your actions in multiplayer is data which appears unique (your moves) with an identifying pattern (your game handle/session ID etc so the game knows who's making those moves). Given that there are millions of games out there with online multiplayer, MWB may not know about every single IP they use... especially if you connect directly to the other player. – Nanban Jim Aug 20 '16 at 16:51