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JAMES ASTRAUCKAS
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Date Joined May 2011
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Posted 5/14/2011 7:20 PM (GMT +3)

What is a "PORT SCAN" what does it do!! can anyone please give me some information about these attacks and what malicious behaviour they do thanx :-)

Tavi
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Date Joined Jun 2007
Total Posts : 170

Posted 5/31/2011 7:59 AM (GMT +3)

Hello James,

As you can see here, your computer should be safe as long as the scan was blocked. Regarding what the port scan does, you can read more about it here.

Cheers,

Octavian Arvunescu
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