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"Port Scanning......"

Does anyone get port-scanned a lot in a day?

I have had warnings of a blocked port-scanning 4 times in the last day. Is this a normal occurance or should I burn my computer with holy fire?

Does anyone get port-scanned a lot in a day?

I have had warnings of a blocked port-scanning 4 times in the last day. Is this a normal occurance or should I burn my computer with holy fire?

What's a port-scanner?

if you don't use holy fire, id at least recommend washing the whole computer down with holy water then be sure to drink any excess, just to be sure.

Dark Wolf wrote:
> What's a port-scanner?

I have no idea

Isnt that when it looks for printers and scanners, mine done it when i put my nw printer in...
It said it was scanning the ports to find what one the printer was in...

Yes.....

Dark Wolf wrote:
> What's a port-scanner?

Little s£its sitting at their PC using a program to scan for vulnerable ports on PC's connected to the internet. If ports are open and unprotected then you are at risk of numerous hacking activities.

There is a very simple way to deduce if any of your ports are open, go to https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 and be scared, or smug.

*sit's behind router firewall, Zone Alarm and Norton AV*

You have Zone Alarm?

Practical Magic wrote:
> Little s£its sitting at their PC using a program to scan for
> vulnerable ports on PC's connected to the internet. If ports are open
> and unprotected then you are at risk of numerous hacking activities.

I need to get my firewall back!

Oh, and it's probably something to do with this massive 'hackathon' today...

As long as you have a decent firewall, you don't need to worry.

If it's reporting them - that means it's stopped them, and no need to worry.

I personally, however, have two firewalls ;) Hardware and software.