Malwarebytes flagging roon as malvertising

[Sloop_John_B (John B)]

Roon Core Machine

Roon ROCK on ntel® NUC Kit NUC5i5MYHE

• 8gb ram, m2 ssd 240gb

Networking Gear & Setup Details

Virgin Media Hub 2.0 modem → Netgear JGS524 (24 port hub)

Connected Audio Devices

Auralic Aries G2 (wireless via TPLink AC750
Bluesound Node 2 ethernet
Bluesound Pulse (ethernet)
Bluesound Soundbar (ethernet)
KEF LS50WII (ethernet)

Number of Tracks in Library

60,931

Description of Issue

Malwarebytes is giving the following warning for Roon on my Win 10 machine.
It occurred as I selected one of my recently added local albums.

I did a search and this was reported before but there is no outcome

Malwarebytes flagging roon.exe again

Malwarebytes is consistently reporting malvertising (malware/malicious advertising/phishing) for roon. Normally I would ignore it but even on looking at this superficially, roon.exe seems to be trying to make a connection to a very speciifc ip address that, when you look it up, has been reused across a ton of bad actors of one kind or another. My concern is this. Everytime roon starts up it calls home, nothing wrong with that but why is it calling to a seemingly unaffiliated IP? This looks …

.sjb

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

I stopped using AVG for a similar reason, it would keep quarantining Roon.