Port Scans

[FlFishOn]

My firewall blocked a 'port scan attack' every 4 minutes while I was playing on PokerPlex. I shut down Plex and the attacks end. Is this the site attempting to access something benign on my puter? The TCP ports were 5001 - 5004 FWIW scanned from a listed IP address.

[Kablooie]

Probably.

if you use the command netstat from the dos command console you can see which applications are using which ports. Usually port scans run over a rather larger range of ports that that.

[MrMoo]

Probably not. Your firewall is probably being overzealous in it's detection of port scans. Since it sounds like PokerPlex is using "odd" ports (5001-5004) that may be falsely detected as a port scan.

At any rate, a port scan by itself is harmless. If you open a command window and run the command "netstan -an", you'll be able to see which ports are listening. If when you run PokerPlex, ports 5001-5004 are listening, you may want to email PokerPlex support and ask them why.

[Sniper]

The cryptos last update included a change in their application upgrade process... UA.exe is now triggering firewall issues.

[beernutz]

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Probably not. Your firewall is probably being overzealous in it's detection of port scans. Since it sounds like PokerPlex is using "odd" ports (5001-5004) that may be falsely detected as a port scan.

At any rate, a port scan by itself is harmless. If you open a command window and run the command "netstan -an", you'll be able to see which ports are listening. If when you run PokerPlex, ports 5001-5004 are listening, you may want to email PokerPlex support and ask them why.

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I believe that should be "netsta<font color="red">t</font> -an"

[DocMartin]

Yep, I just kept unblocking UA with the new intallations. What does it do anyway?