BleepingComputer.com: Return of the attempts to "dial out"

I've posted on this topic once before. I'm back because the previous suggestion that I examine the log for an unauthorized process didn't yield any results, and my configuration has changed since then.

For security, I use Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware and ESET Smart Security. And the Windows firewall.

Here's the problem. I sporadically use BitTorrent. Whenever it's active, MBAM keeps popping up messages that it blocked attempts by something on my system to connect to a hazardous website. The IP address varies. (If I'm not imagining things, I seem to remember that the attempts to "dial out" once in the past continued even after I had fully exited BitTorrent.)

When this happened recently, I ran in-depth scans of both drives with MBAM and ESET. Didn't find anything. I re-installed SuperAntispyware Professional (ESET's installer had told me not to have another similar product installed) and ran a full scan. All it found was more than 200 tracking cookies (ESET didn't catch that!) and a remnant (in the registry) of a piece of malicious software that had been removed by another product.

There are still outgoing attempts. One popped up just as I was typing this. I'm stumped.

This post has been edited by hamluis: 07 April 2011 - 11:19 AM
Reason for edit: Moved from XP to Am I infected.

Can you post the exact error messages and maybe screenshots?

When I hear the terms "dial out" I think of a 56K dial Up Modem and IE being improperly configured.

This post has been edited by cryptodan: 07 April 2011 - 09:36 AM

Sorry for the misleading verbage. There's no modem in my setup. I'm attaching a small screen capture.

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Number of downloads: 3

YIPES, I just realized I posted in the Windows XP section. I thought my BleepingComputer bookmark defaulted to the spyware section. Is there some way I can move my thread or is that up to the moderators?

EDIT: Moved to Am I Infected forum ~ Hamluis.

This post has been edited by hamluis: 07 April 2011 - 11:20 AM

How do you exit Bit Torrent?

By going to the top left drop down menu named "File" and choosing the lower-most option "Exit." I just tested this, launching and exiting BitTorrent, then opening the Task Manager to see if there were any possible BitTorrent processes running. Of course process names can vary, but nothing there seemed related.

Can you take a screenshot of your task manager, and post it here?

Actually, I was just thinking about going into the ProcessExplorer utility, because I thought I saw some new items there I couldn't identify. But I'll hold off until you all take a look at this first. Your sharp eyes may spot something right away that would take me an hour to figure out. This is actually two screen captures pasted together so you can see everything revealed after I scroll down through the manager.

Can you show all processes from all users?

Not sure how to answer that. I'm the only user on this PC, and I run from the administrator account. Of course, there's a guest account. Also an unused account using just my first name, that I created after being told it might not be such a good idea to always work from the admin account. If you need to see those two process lists, do I assume correctly that I just log into them and do a screen capture there?

Do you see the box at the very bottom that says show processes from all users? You check that box.

Also what Bit Torrent client do you use?

BitTorrent 7.2 (build 232926)
note: the instant I launched BitTorrent to get this information, there was an attempt to reach a dangerous website, blocked by MBAM.