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Immature
05-27-01, 04:31 PM
Does this mean that I might have a trojan? At times I do get outgoing packets on my pc, on a variety of ports. This one however, got my attention:

ZoneAlarm has blocked an outgoing request from your computer. This may indicate an unauthorized program, or a legitimate request from an authorized program.

The application attempted to access the Internet on port 1063 when it may not have had permission to do.

Source was port 1063, and the destination was port 80.

The firewall has blocked Internet access to 207.46.131.21 (HTTP) from your computer.

I checked out port 80, which is commonly used by the Executor trojan.

What I'm wondering is, is it normal to have outgoing packets? I scanned for trojans and virusses 2 weeks ago, using Tauscan, and nothing was detected, so this leads me to believe that this is ordinary traffic.

Any comments or suggestions will be greatly appreciated, and thanks!

Matt615
05-27-01, 05:29 PM
Just go through the programs list in ZA and make sure only the programs you want to let access the internet are set to be allowed to. If something were trying to access the internet it should show up in the programs list. If you find something there that shouldnt be than dis-allow access to the internet from it.

Immature
05-27-01, 05:32 PM
Thanks for the swift reply :P

I went to the IP, and it was Microsoft's site...Oopsie :P

I just thought it was odd that my pc is sending outgoing packets :)

Matt615
05-27-01, 08:36 PM
Originally posted by Ken
Your box was trying to go to Microsoft. Perhaps you have it set to check for updates...

Thats a good possibility.

Glad I could help. :)