Defender Says My PC is Dangerous - why/what/how?

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Yesterday I was getting messages that I think were from windows defender, that it had blocked a communication to a bad place. ( I forget the words it used, you know what I mean I guess?).
And it gave an IP address.
And it said 'outgoing'

Now that IP address was my own.
And 'outgoing' sounds to me like it was my machine trying to communicate.

I can see that perhaps some bad site has put a keylogger or something on my machine and wants reports from it and that's bad. So is that what was going on? And if so wouldn't it be common sense to tell me what the app was, the process or whatever so's I could deal with it?

Or defender deal with it itself?

Leaving me with only that info just leaves me wondering what the hell is going on.

I find in the Defender 'history' screen only one thing and it is dated six days ago, not yesterday. It was a thing called Rogue:JS/Techbrolo.A and it was quarantined. I just deleted it.

And just a while ago Malwarebytes was proudly claiming it had blocked something without telling me what it was or why.

How do we get to know what's going on?
 
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Aurthur I don't know what PC cleaners you have, but, I would download free cleaners that are effective at finding and cleaning malware. Run Malwarebytes again then download and run:

CCleaner https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download.

JRT (Junkware Removal Tool) from here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/dl/131/
Malware Hunter http://www.glarysoft.com/malware-hunter/

TFC.exe http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/files/file/187-tfc-temp-file-cleaner-by-oldtimer/

ADWcleaner from here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/dl/125/

Run them at their downloaded default settings. They are all safe to run and will do a good job at at finding any unwanted malware.

Good luck
 
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The only ones I don't have and use are TFC and Malware Hunter. Malware wouldn't run on my win10 OS. Windows wouldn't allow it because of an unsigned driver, apparently. told me to uninstall it and contact the vendor.

I use MalwareBytes and Spybot Search and Destroy as well.

I'd hoped there'd be a way to get Defender to give up more information
 
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The only ones I don't have and use are TFC and Malware Hunter. Malware wouldn't run on my win10 OS. Windows wouldn't allow it because of an unsigned driver, apparently. told me to uninstall it and contact the vendor.

I use MalwareBytes and Spybot Search and Destroy as well.

I'd hoped there'd be a way to get Defender to give up more information

Correction: Malware Hunter is running right now apparently quite happily. So I don't know what that was about. And it has found 1 threat so far. Might be on to something...
 
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Correction: Malware Hunter is running right now apparently quite happily. So I don't know what that was about. And it has found 1 threat so far. Might be on to something...

Arthur Even 1 threat can create havoc. At least you have found one. Malware Hunter belongs to the Malwarebytes family.
 

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