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How to prevent 'Somebody scanning my PC'?
I'm using Sygate Personal Firewall. Just sometime past, it gave me couple of
warnings as "Somebody is scanning your computer. Your computer's TCP ports: 1025, 6129, 135 and 5554 have been scanned from 219.65.184.60.." Will someone please explain about this and advise how to prevent my computer getting scanned like this? Thanks! - Baba |
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It's difficult to prevent a third party doing things with their PC and
that includes scanning ports on your system. What you can do, and seem to be doing, is to minimise the effect of such scanning by running a firewall that will prevent access to your system by unauthorised third parties. In addition you need to regularly scan your system for unwanted malware - not only viruses but also trojans, key loggers, adware and the like. The purpose of such scanning is to see whether your system is, for example, host to a trojan that the remote user can then use to access your system and obtain details stored on your system such as perhaps bank details and passwords. -- Mike Maltby Baba wrote: I'm using Sygate Personal Firewall. Just sometime past, it gave me couple of warnings as "Somebody is scanning your computer. Your computer's TCP ports: 1025, 6129, 135 and 5554 have been scanned from 219.65.184.60.." Will someone please explain about this and advise how to prevent my computer getting scanned like this? Thanks! - Baba |
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