I'm not connecting to any nodes/the network, anyone else having this issue?
update from latest nodes and try to delete yours peers.dat files (it will be recreated) and give it some time.
yeah, did all that, even added the longest node list I can find... not connecting to anything and every once and awhile malwarebytes tells me it's blocking an IP. I looked at my log and it hasn't blocked any nodes... not sure what is going on.... why so many malicious nodes or IPs?