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Port Scan Attack
I got a new pc laptop for school about 3 weeks ago and all has been well until today. I was on the school's network today and a Symantec Endpoint notification popped up in the bottom right corner of the screen, saying that a port scan attack had been logged, and that it was going to block a particular IP address for 600 seconds. This happened about 3 times. Not sure if the IP address was the same each time.

Right after the last time this message occurred, a new Symantec notification started popping up, which says that it is blocking traffic from svchost.exe. This message pops up about every 5 minutes now.

Symantec can't find any viruses and MalwareBytes can't find any infections, so I'm wondering what's going on. I tried researching online, and found explanations ranging from false alarm to remote keylogging. It might just be Symantec notifying me that the firewall is doing what it is supposed to do, but the constant notifications are annoying and I'm concerned that there might actually be a problem.

Does anyone know what I should do?

Thanks!
Last edited by Logic; Sep 6, 2012 at 01:00 AM.