Hello. When trying to use Duplicati to backup to Storj, I get multiple messages from Malwarebytes telling me that a website was blocked. All different IP addresses, different ports as well. However, one of the ports that seems to be repeating is 28967, which I understand is the main Storj node port. There are also others: 18513, 18511, 28968, 16481, 30078. Should I allow an exception through Malwarebytes for 28967? I think that the AV is blocking the backup from communicating with the Storj network.
Obviously, if you want backup to work, you need to allow full access of the app to the Internet: storage nodes can be on any ip address on any port. 28967 Is the most common one, but you need to unblock all.
(I would instead uninstall malwarebytes in the first place. It’s a classic case a cure being worse than illness)
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I did give the duplicati app full access. But for some reason, I’m still getting the blocked website messages from Malwarebytes. Or at least the duplicati.GUI.TrayIcon .exe that is mentioned in the blocked website messages from Malwarebytes has full access.
OK. All set. Thanks @arrogantrabbit . I got Malwarebytes to play nice. Thanks for your time.
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Yup. If you run Windows, just run Defender. If it makes you feel better… occasionally install malwarebytes, let it scan, then uninstall it again.
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Both are useless energy wasting hogs. But advice to run defender is to give users who think they need some sort of security snake oil warm and fuzzy feeling that they are “protected”. Decades ago running antivirus did make some sense, and many windows users are conditioned to believe they still need one, in part due to antivirus companies pushing their crap — they need to make money after all. Some shrewd ones switched to peddling new hot garbage: “identity monitoring services” — because this is a new boogie man. “It’s all bullshit folks, and it’s bad for you” (George Carlin)
Defender at least has lower load on the system compared to others. Still, turning it off (which is a rather nontrivial process) is worth it to get power and battery life back; basically so that the user who paid for hardware gets to use it, not Microsoft or bitdefender.
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Hello @dr878,
Welcome to the forum!
The node can run in untrusted environment, that’s the nice thing about Storj. Because everything is encrypted, no virus can modify pieces of your data without noticing by Storj. So, you will either get your file or not, there is nothing in between. If the node is compromised and trashed or scrambled your pieces there, there are 79 other nodes, which have at least one from 29 unmodified piece. So, you almost always safe.
Of course, no one can guarantee 100%, but Storj is most of reliable ones.
I would say, that’s safe to add to excluded list all hosts and ports which the backup tool is connecting using Storj.