Windows update getting blocked by firewall?

Cyber Security & Hacking
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I’m seeing something odd on my firewall that recently popped up, just wanted to see if anyone else was seeing this and what your thoughts are before I allow these to connect. I’m seeing the following getting blocked by Zenarmor:

ctldl.windowsupdate dot com

au.download.windowsupdate dot com

As far as I know windowsupdate dot com is a valid site so I’m wondering if someone just got a little excited and blocked it, and sent it back to the ZA database. Both are saying virus/malware in the description, which depending on your point of view may be correct.

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I don’t use zen armor, but those sites are legit.

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Thanks, that’s what I thought. Not sure why Australia is closer than the several datacenters in the USA, but here we are and not the first time I’ve seen updates coming from over there.

I unblocked them because when I went back I had 50 entries in the block list, 46 were from one of those sites. I also found one of my upstream DNS servers were being blocked, not sure why that happened. Goofy stuff when you update the versions sometimes, otherwise it works fairly well at blocking ads and other junk.