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Originally posted by Ro@Apr 21 2005, 02:43 AM
Hi all, another question.
I finally installed Sygate Personal Firewall the other day, and every once in a while the system tray icon flashes red. When I open up the window, a security log pops up, and there's a message that reads:
"somebody is scanning your TCP ports, 23.564.2223.44, blah blah."
It says that the threat is "minor," but I usually right click on the log entry and select "block all active responses" just to be safe. Even though I have no idea what it means.
Can someone enlighten me as to what's going on here? Do I need to be worried?
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Like photon said there are millions of kids scanning random machines everyday to find the vulnerable ones, if you're running the most basic of firewalls you should be fine against these negligible threats. Some firewalls allows you to set the option so that it will only protect you silently in the background and not alert you of these annoying things. I've never used Sygate so I can't comment on that though.