Malwarebytes stopping outbound phishing and exploit attempts from Electrum

[Lucius]

Norton 360 at times blocks it too.

I have been a Norton user for years and have never had a situation where this AV blocked my Electrum BTC for any reason, but I use NS (older version). Yet for some reason the same AV block Electrum LTC to the point that I stopped using it thinking there was really something malicious in that program.

[HCP]

As far as I know, it's simply an IP/domain-based "blacklist"... likely caused by miscreants abusing certain IP/domains for nefarious purposes in the past... now MalwareBytes thinks anything attempting to connect to these IP/domains using certain ports is "Phishing" or "Exploits"

False positives like this are a real issue... as they make people unnecessarily concerned about legitimate software, but also because they get annoying and then people stop trusting the anti-virus/anti-malware software!