Wasn't sure where else to put this so I thought I'd ask here:

I was visiting a dodgy website to download a video from YouTube at 720p; malwarebytes browser guard warned me that it blocked something (a website or link something), and a different malwarebytes notification told me it stopped an outbound connection having something to do with firefox.

I also had qbitorrent running and malwarebytes has always hated my torrent applications (previously also complaining about Azureus/vuze), giving me tons of notifications about them.

Eventually though Avira warned me that it had stopped an intruder that had port scanned me and on multiple ports, something I didn't even know was a thing.

I've disabled the internet connection on my PC for now, is there any advice you guys have? I've never seen a warning like this from Avira before.

  • fuzzy
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    11 months ago

    the next time you need to download a video, use https://cobalt.tools

    if the only file you downloaded was a video, you're fine.