Portscan?

Hi ...
Can somebodye here tell me what kind of virus portscan is? My antivirus program is blocking it. But still it comes over and over again. What can I do? I have the mans Ip adr and sorry to say it is one of you in the forum.

All The Best

From Norway

MrOlsen

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4 Years Ago

its not a virus, it means someone or something is probing your virtual ports, to see if any are open (e.g what servers you have running on your machine)

jbennet

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4 Years Ago

the reply from the forum while you're connected to it, might be interpreted by a stupid AV app as port scanning. Especially if you use Norton ;)

DimaYasny

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