Assigned Zemana Anti-Malware 2.0

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Can someone elaborate why this happens... more specifically, why friggin' Microsoft... lol

When I connect to scan cloud... I see 3 entries in my connections log, in this order:
https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/108.161.189.192
https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/104.45.231.79
https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/168.62.20.37

When I go through menu to check for updates... I see 1 more entry in my connections log, which is also spotted above:
https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/168.62.20.37

My question is... when did Zemana bump uglies and start working with Microsoft?
Fair enough, if one of the engines ZAM uses is from MS, I could sorta' accept seeing MS pop up. However, update checks too? I tried adding the 168.x.x.x entry to my ZAM firewall rule, to see if the previous two would buckle (and maybe cloud connection). Cloud connection stalled for a while, but it did connect. So, performed another update, managed to get both working on the one MS IP.

So, what gives? I used to use ZAL ages ago, but do not remember performing whois checks on IPs, so cannot confirm if this IP was MS-related back then. However, I can confirm that the IP does look the same from my ZAL days.

EDIT: The comments section for the 168.x.x.x report are ominous... also, I wonder how the ZAM Windows Service behaves...
 
I use WFC to log in/out connections made by W7FwAS. I notice the following entries when trying to connect to Zemana Cloud and checking for Zemana updates... just wondering why they are using Microsoft... (fair enough, 1 of the 3 is not MS, but cloud connection and update check can be achieved by MS 168.x.x.x). I am suprised that no one questioned this from the beginning, when ZAL first arrived...

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EDIT:
Reply from their Support staff...
"Yes, Zemana AntiMalware communicates with Microsoft Azure servers in order
to check for available updates (a simple HTTP request returning the latest
available version number). Additionally, the process is legitimate."
 
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